Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28

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FOR Book Reviews Sc stpplementl
The November aCentury ison the press
for the fourth time. The fifst edition 81 the
February number. containing Gen: Grants
aShiloh, viii be 49, 900.
Mr.. +. p. Roe's new serial story, Driven
Back to Eden" viii begin in the February
"St. Nicholas"
The .Ashburnham manuscripts arrived
safely in Florence atthe Laurenzian Library
on the morning of December 3. They were
contained in thirty cases and were conveyed
from Ostend in special car, securely
fastened with locks and seals. They were
issued for $ll5,00O.
The collector Of the Syston Park Library
Sir John II. Thorold, believed that he had
an iniallible preventive of the book worms
rayages When having a book bound. he
had small quaatitxpf mineralsalts mixed
with the paste. Tins he believed to be quite
certain to keep the destroyer from entering
the book.
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An injunction has been granted in New
York against certain publishers who have
issued @Dante's Inferno" in style similar
to the publication OF Messrs. Cassel Il Co..
who are the only authorized Publishers OF
HDantes Inferno" and "Purgatory and
Paradise" and Millions Paradise Lost,
with all the Illustrations from the original
designs by Gustave Dore.
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Next month Washington firm will pub
lish what is called ''The Shakesperean
Referee," being cyclopedia Of 1920 words,
obsolete and modern. which occur in the
plays, with notes, translatioRs, &c, by j. II.
Siddons.
Thackeray's Second Funeral of Ma
poleon" and Chronicle of the Drum as
first published by Hugh Cunning ham, in
1871, is a volume of l22 pages and about
the rarest of all Thackerays works. A
copy of it was sold at auction in London re-
Gently for $50.
For theillustrated quarto edition Of Long
fellows works Houghton, Miffiin &>Co. have
received $4,000 subscriptions. The work is
bound in six volumes as well as In three.
At the close of the last volume biographi.
cal sketch of the poet, written by Mr.. o, b.
rockingham, is inserted.
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The sale in England few days ago of
another copy of the Gutenberg Bible revives
interest in the Robert Aitken Bible, which
has been described as 1.-THE Gutenberg
Bible of America" Athens work was the
FIRST English Bible printed in the United
States and was undertaken By him at his
own private expense. The proof sheets OF
it were read by Bishop White, and it received
the special appreciation Of Congress, which
passed formal resolution that is Of much
interest in its bearing on the question of the
recognition Of religion by Congress. The
work was also cited as an example of the
progress Of art in this country. The Lenox
Library and Mr.. G. P. Philes posses the
only perfect copies known in New York. II
is believed that Dir. Aiken was ruined
financially by his undertaking
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1t is stated that the Queens Printers in
London, have $4,000 type forms standing
in their cellars.
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Painstaking people, who know next to
nothing of printing, find a special delightin
searching out topographic errors in news
papers, periodicals aud books, the detection
Of blunder, in their own estimation, put
ting premium on individual intelligence
comforting a privilege of disparaging
printers. Men of intelligence, who write
we'll but not legibly, never tire Of pointing
OFT mistakes Of printers and the oyersights
Of proofreaders. These selEconstituted
censors Of typograpy may find food for
wholesome reflection in the fact that just
about one hundred years ago number of
professors in the Edinburgh University
undertook the publication of a book which
should be perfect specimen of Topographic
cal accuracy. Every conceivable precau-
ton was taken to prevent errors of the types.
Six experienced proof readers were en-
ployed, who devoted hours 20 the reading of
each page. After this careful task was
completed. each page was posted in the hal!
of the University, with notification that
$50 would be paid to any person who
should succeed in discovering an error.
Every page remained thus publicly exposed
FOR two weeks before being returned to the
printing office. The projectors OF the work
felt confident that the object so diligently
striven for had been attained. Great was
the discontinue Of the learned men when,
on the work being issued, several errors were
found, one occurring in the first line on the
first page.