Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05

study Leading to it is the story Of the
Vollbehr book collection recenty acquired BY
the Congress Of the United States and now
part Of the Library Of Congress rounding this
institution to q level WliA IRE two greatest
libraries of the world-the British Museum in
London and the Bibliotheque Rationale IN
Paris. Immediately preceding this announce
ment Is an account of the evolution Of the
Library Of Congress from small beginnings, IN
deed to its present scope and its outlook upon
great future.
William Dana CIRCUITS passion is book, as
such. A matter Of paper and type and bind
ing, of decorations and page proportions ana
arrangement. A book to him must be an en-
semble of artistry. And it is from this stand
point that he here defines for us the magic" Of
book beauty. Craftsman that he is he dis
courses upon type its various forms and COM
munications, for he insists that type has a
language varying to the eye in cadence and
clarity and seemliness even as spoken words so
vary to the sense of hearing. Now to print
is print and not much more. But reading this
book, no one can push permanently away
desire TO know more about subject made so
reasonable and so fascinating as this book Is
in its intimacy with form as form applies TO
every part of book structure
Mr., circuit tells about the revival, the re
Surrection' Of the Vatican Library and about
the men who gave of themselves for this con-
summation. These rescued prints manuscripts,
original documents of every sort are vastly
more than books. They are life, the life of this
epoch and that one, without which much Of
our own current life loses its springs of being,
loses more than one of the answers to the
riddle Of existence.
Like a lover, as he is he tells of ancient
craftsmen in type and letters Tells of growth
to the art of printing, to the changes that it
demands, and In demanding sometimes suffers
loss. The story Of Bodoni, famous printer Of
Parma, reads like adventure as it is. And like
romance do all these actual adventurings after
type read in THE Magic of the Book" Our
own great book benefactors are likely to beget
fine pride in us. as they should Pierpont
Morgan and his son after him. Henry E. Hunt
ington and his beautiful library at San Marino
Calf. And now for all of US, again, our own
great Library Of Congress, whose rarest pos
session is the Gutenberg Bible" Of which the
daily papers made mention. I wish could tell
you just what deep glowing pleasure this book
has waiting for you-beauttful as a book IN
calculably fine as an experience and an inspira-
ticn.
This volume is composed of Baskerville type
revived from the eighteenth century design Of
John Baskerville, Birmingham, England. The
cover is q modern adaptation of Roger Payne
pattern, copy from Venice 1894. The plates
were made by the Walker Engraving Co.. New
York, and are printed on Warren's cameo dull
coated book. The text paper IS Warrens olde
style laid Typography, presswork and binding,
are, under the personal supervision of Mr.. Or
cult, by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass
And it is all beautiful all q direct call for
keener interest in a search for the perfect
book"
CASTLE GAY. BY John Buchan, author Of
John MacNab." etc. Boston: Hougton Milf
fin Co.
the high-to-do involves nothing less than
the kidnapping Of Thomas Carlyle Craw, news
paper magnate, head of a great syndicate
mighty man in the world Of events. This was
the way Of it, so far the way was known:
Craw was on his road TO Castle Gay-then,
total and mysterious erasure of Craw from the
local landscape. Rival papers were wild with
conjecture, with slanting suspicion and innuendo
with genuine professional fear; for no doubt
the fellow had stolen a march upon them was
up to some master stroke of press diplomacy
was planning journalistic coup CT magnitude
The abduction but a pretense concealing the
hrst go at some critical point of world agitation
This excitement of suspense over the dis
appearance Of Craw is worked to the high art
Of Buchan in creating sensat ions and sustain
ing them. Nothing at all coming to light rival
papers assume that, after all the hullaballoo
Craw is really at Castle Cay So agents of
these papers and representatives of two warning
factions Of Near East country lay siege to
castle Gay. As matter of fact Craw has been
discovered in lonely cabin on the moors-
discovered by those lea1 men, McCunn Doupal
and Wee Jaikie, without whom this novelist
woulS be crippled indeed These three, in
pianS LOT the release OF the prisoner, raise the
business to the zone of epic doings-nothing
short And when the lovely lady Of Castle Gay
joins forces with them, then war and love enter
into their traditional partnership And Incl
dentally John Buchan adds another prime
romance to the Is standing at attention to
receive It.
THE OPENERS OF THE GATE: Stories of the
Occult. BY L. Adams Beck, author of THE
Story of Oriental Philosophy" etc New
York; Cosmopolitan Box Corporation.