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16 ‘BOOK REVIEWS From an Unbiased Viewpoint. By A. E. RAM SA UR. Miniature Volumes in the Congressional Library. Book lovers everywhere cannot fail to be interested in the most unique collection of books ever shown to the public. In a case devoted to their use, in the magnificent Congressional Library, at Washington, there are displayed one hundred and eighty-nine books all of which a man could easily carry in his pocket, and for the reading of every one of which a strong magnifying glass is needed. These books are exact reprints of the Bible, famous works of fiction, poetry, art and even of reference, altho one cannot help considering the d fficulties that would surround the latter if they were ever attempted to be used for practical purposes. The books vary in size from one-third of an inch square to two inches and a half high by two inches wide. They are printed in English, French, German, Russian, Dutch Arabic, Turkish and Italian, and, as has been said, their range of subjects is almost as varied as the languages. Most of them are published abroad in London, Glasgow, Venice, Padua, Milan, Paris, Constantinople or St. Petersburg, and the workmanship, binding and printing, show the height of the printers and binders art. It is difficult to determine the date of the earliest of publications of this kind, though a small Bible was published in 1854, and the Bible of Richelieu in 1656, while tiny editions of famous French writers were published early in the eighteenth century. Os the latter many of the volumes disappeared entirely until after the Revolution of 1830. At the Paris Exposition of 1878 the small edition of Dante, printed by Lurent & Derbeny, was shown, but it cost the makers the loss of their eyesight. The smallest book in the collection at Washington is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and it is also the smallest book ever printed. It is the popular Fitzgerald edition, edited by Dole and published in Cleveland, Ohio, by Charles Hardy Meigs. Some idea of the minuteness of this volume may be gained from the fact that it would take 402 copies to cover the original Rybaiyat which is printed in the usual octavo size. The poem is arranged with five verses to a page, thirty words to a verse, making 150 words on a page printed in a space one-third of an inch square. iSome of the volumes in the collection are perfectly illustrateed with steel and wood engravings, photographs and lithographs, while several volumes are devoted exclusively to views—notably of the Paris Exposition, collected in little gilt edged, gilt clasped volumes, the pictures measuring 16x14 millimetres, it taking 25 millimetres to make a single inch. The smallest English dictionary and the smallest French dictionary in the world are in this collection, and are published by David Bryce & Co., of Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to the several volumes of the Bible, the other sacred books are an Arabic Mss which is probably printed from the Koran copy of the Pentateuch, measuring 30x21 millimetres; the “Doctrinal and Prayer Book,” published in Altorf, and which bears the earliest date in the collection— 1710—several books of Common Prayer, a Jewish Service Book, the Thumb Nail Confession Book, and two copies of the "Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a’ Kempis. Among the prose works in this collection are Walton’s “Complete Angler,” Grimm’s Fairy Tales, La Fontaine’s Fables, “The Wandering Jew,” by Eugene Sue, and “ Jeannot et Colin,” by Voltaire. Books of scientific research, of science, metaphysics, botany, zoology, geography and pedagogics are also in the collection. A “Gazetteer of the World” proposes to give the “most recent statisti cal information and notices of the most important events associated with the places named, also the last census” within a volume 56x50x20 millimetres. This collection is simply a marvelous display of the possibilities of the printer’s art, and it cannot be re-produced for any possible amount. Our Best Offer —lntended Only for Live People. Get three friends to subscribe for The Golden Age. Collect $2.00 a piece from them. That makes $6.00. Send us P. 0. Order. Now, what do we do? Listen! We send The Golden Age from date of your order to June Ist, 1907, to each of your three friends. We send them also, as a souvenir, one large, new, up-to-date wall map of Georgia. (All the new counties given). That’s Not All. We don’t forget your kindness! You will get The Golden Age and the new Georgia map just like each of the three subscribers you secured. (No charge). Send P. O. Order to The Golden Age, Atlanta, Ga. 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