Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need hardly hear of Professor Kittredge's one-volume Shakespeare to be assured that it is a complete and a scholarly work. The publishers have worked with the editor, patiently and skillfully, to reproduce in precise the tremendous knowledge of text, idiom, and literary values which Professor Kittredge owns...
Special emphasis is being placed this year on the solicitation of text-books which will be placed in the loan library of Phillips Brooks House. Old magazines are distributed to settlement houses and hospitals...
...intensive campaign for the collection of old clothes, text books, and magazines will get under way Monday morning when Phillips Brooks House will commence its annual fall drive in all departments of the University...
Certain minor liberties are taken with the text some of which are not entirely happy. The recasting of the scenes into two acts is a necessary expedient. But there is also an annoying amount of expurgation of certain crudities which it might be thought that over three centuries had succeeded in mellowing. And in the crucial scene where Cassio is forced by the craft of Iago to convict himself before Othello in a completely misleading way, the clinching evidence of the handkerchief is in this performance somehow strangely omitted...
...Typography", says Mr. Morison, "May be defined as the craft of rightly disposing printing material in accordance with specific purpose; of so arranging the letters, distributing the space and controlling the type as to aid to the maximum the readers comprehension of the text. Typography is the efficient means to as essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end, for enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim. Therefore, any disposition of printing material which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming between author and reader is wrong. It follows that is the printing of books meant...