Title Index to the "Weekly Record" Does not include the material listed in smaller type Alaskan, The. Curwood, J. O. $2. Cosmopolitan An ideal husband. Wilde, O. 95c. Boni Anatomy of the human eye and orbit. Goldnamer, W. W. $5, $6, $7.50. Professional Press Automatic sprinkler protection. Dana, G. $3.50. Wiley 25c. Baptism according to the scriptures. Durrett, J. Lamar & Barton Bar 20-three. Mulford, C. E. 75c. Burt Bearing of the cursus on the text of Dante's de Vulgari Eloquentia, The. Toynbee, P. 50c. Oxford Boy scouts in Africa. Corcoran, A. P. $1. Barse Breaking a bird dog. Lytle, J. H. $2. Fenno Bureau of internal revenue, The. Schmeckebier, L. F. & Eble, F.X.A. $1.50. Johns Hopkins Calleja diccionario manual enciclopedica. $6. Caspar Camp fire boys in Muskrat Swamp, The. Clifton, O. L. $1 Barse Century of children's books, A. Barry, F. V. $2. Doran Chemistry. Beery, P. G. $3.50. Lippincott City government of Winchester from the records of the 14th and 15th centuries. Furley, J. S. $4.70. Oxford Appleton Clinical diagnosis of internal diseases, The. Complete book of the great musicians, The. Co-operative democracy. Warbasse, J. P. Oxford Roehl, L. M. $2.85 Bruce & Mor Caspar manageRonald Farmer's shop book. Golden boys rescued by radio. Wyman, L. Burt Golf for beginners. Campbell, G. Great antithesis, The. Hull, E. R. $1 Stokes Great Britain and Prussia in the 18th century. Lodge, R. $4.70 Handbook of civics for Australia and New Zealand. Thorn, F. & Rigg, E. $1 Oxford Hernia and its radical cure. $3.75 Hutchinson, J. Oxford Homer's Odyssey. Bessey, M. A. & Harding, Latin. Siedler, C. W. 67c. Lippincott Little red foot, The. Chambers, R. W. 75c. Burt Love-rogue, The. Tellez, G. $1.75 Lieber & Lewis Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. Byrd, W. Oxford Irvine, H. Dutton бос. Making of rural Europe. The. D. $2.50 Manual for leaders of Presbyterian Pioneers. Donnelly, H. I. 25c. Westminster Press March hares. Gribble, H. W. $2 Stewart Kidd Mine with the iron door, The. Wright, H. B. $2 Appleton More portmanteau plays. Walker, S. $2.50 Stewart Kidd Motor transportation of merchandise and pasMcGraw-Hill sengers. White, P. $4 L Rare Books, Autographs and Prints IONEL VIBERT'S "The Rare Books of Freemasonry," selections of which have appeared in The Bookman's Journal, is now in press and will shortly appear in London. "The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E.," with about one hundred reproductions, including sixteen in hand printed photogravures and an introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman, has been published in London. Charles Dickens's famous home, Gad's Hill, near Rochester, for which the author paid $40,000, was put up at auction on July 26th and only a first bid of $25,000 was offered for it. The auctioneer withdrew the property and an attempt will be made to sell it privately. The leading article in the July Bookman's Journal treats of "W. H. Hudson,' 'Henry Harford,' and the Story of 'Fan.'" This is followed by "New Light on the Alkens and Their Sporting Prints" by George Kendall; "Book Hunting in Italy" by Gordon Craig; "The Artist Craftsmen of London" and "The Poetical Legacy of Andrew Lang." The departments as usual are well filled with interesting note and comment. Three early printed books of great rarity, the property of H. Plumstre, were bought by Dr. Rosenbach at Sotheby's in London July 23d. The most important was a copy of the Sarum Missal, printed in London by R. Pynson, 1504, which brought £430. The only known copy of the Sarum Gradual, printed in Paris in 1507 by W. Hoyl, was bought for £260. The only known copy of a hitherto unrecorded edition of the Sarum Missal, printed in Paris in 1497 by Gering and Remboldt for Wynken de Worde and others in London, fetched £180. Rare books turn up in the most unexpected places and in the least expected purchases. Thomas & Eron of 34 Barclay Street recently bought a collection in which the proportion of junk was very large. Among the volumes which came very near going into the discard was a copy of John Stephen's "Cinthia's Revenge," London, 1613, a first edition in black letter, a copy of which brought £96 in the Mostyn sale in London in 1919. After having found this prize, a careful examination disclosed several other early and rare items. It is probable that their owner purchased these volumes on "suspicion" and never really knew their value. At the Brown-Robertson gallery there is offered a collection of process prints, mainly in color, with the process so well illustrated in each case with the plates and proofs that one cannot well afford to miss the educational opportunity afforded by it. There are shown, for instance, steps in the four-color reproduction process, the method of the three-color photogravure, printed from a copper plate facsimile in one impression; the hand-colored print involving a printed impression from the negative ready for coloring, and those other methods of print making which are more largely a personal process-the mezzotint, the aquatint and the wood block and copper engraving. Of the most interesting examples there are Timothy Cole's portraits of Lincoln and Washington and trial proofs of a mezzotint copy of Rembrandt's stately "Man With a Silver Toque" by Lawson Watson. A correspondent of the New York Herald declares that one of the "most needed enterprises in America is a fine photographic museum. He points out that American photographers have led the world and have taken prizes and been honored in every capital of Europe. There is ample evidence, too, that the public is interested in fine photography, an interest that is not gratified only occasionally. Photography has a history. It has its primitives, its literature, its pioneers and its virtuosos. The record is available in the form of magnificent prints, a few of which the public is privileged to see. But since American art museums refuse to accept photographic prints, the whole development is inaccessible. George Eastman's greatest service to America, to the art loving public and incidentally to photography, this correspondent urges, would be to found a devoted to the work of photography, whence his fortune is derived. Now that the question has been raised, it is hard to account for the lack of appreciation of photography among the art directors of this country. In Europe the fine museums have and regularly exhibit fine prints, and it is difficult to see why museum directors here exclude them. museum The library of the Jewish Theological Seminary will soon be generally recognized as the fountain head of information for Jewish scholars. The addition of the Adler collection, announced during the past week, makes this certain. Jewish scholars came from many parts of the world to study the collection of 70,000 volumes that had made this library renowned. The Adler collection was brought together by Elkan Nathan Adler, son of the late Dr. Herman Adler, chief rabbi of London, who was a distinguished international lawyer. These volumes and manuscripts were brought together in the travels of their collector in Egypt, Palestine, Algiers, Tripoli, Persia, Spain, South America, Turkey, the Balkans, Portugal and India, in the period from 1888 to 1906. Some of these books have been in the same families since medieval times. One set was continuously in the possession of the same family in Spain from 1492 to 1910, and for three centuries, it is said, the discovery of the possession of these books would have meant death to the members of the family. Other parts of the collection were in public archives scattered by war and theft. One Spanish document is the sentence of an old Jew to be burned at the stake because his daughter was caught reading a religious book in Hebrew. This collection contains 40,000 volumes in many languages and upwards of 4,000 manuscripts, some of which are over a thousand years old. Professor Alexander Marx, an authority on Jewish history and lore, declares that "these books and manuscripts constitute the greatest Jewish library assembled in all history and its possession by the Jewish Theological Seminary makes that institution the Jewish cultural center of the world." A short time ago, with Mortimer L. Schiff taking the initiative, negotiations were begun for the purchase of this collection. These negotiations were conducted thru Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, well known rare book dealer, who volunteered his services. Early this year the collection was purchased for $125,000, which is said to be a fraction of its value. Associated with Mr. Schiff in its purchase were Louis Marshall, Felix M. Warburg, Daniel Guggenheim, Herbert Lehman, Jules E. Mastbaum, Jacob Epstein, Sol M. Stroock, Nathan Miller, Israel Unterberg, and Henry S. Hendricks. The books and manuscripts made the trip from London in scores of stout packing cases, arriving at intervals since the latter part of April. Only a part have yet been unpacked, but the collection will soon be ready for the catalogers who will have a long, technical task in describing the riches of this collection. F. M. H. T The Fascination of Firsts HE mania for collecting first editions has been attacked a good deal of late and has been criticized from many view points. It is pleasing to find a defense of the practice in The Hampshire Bookshop's The Book Scorpion. "There was a time when the Scorpion could see a 'first' without a quiver-this passion for collecting seemed to him a rather silly pastime. For this preliminary scorn and lack of penetration he is now paying the full penalty of a depleted bank account and only an agonising self control prevents a deficit. There is SO much more than fad and 'phancie' in collecting a library of intrinsic value, if you set out on your adventure with the definite purpose of securing what you yourself think is intrinsically valuable and not with the deadly idea of purchasing 'collector's times'-rare tomes which bring enormous prices on account of their scarcity and not because of their vitals. Here is a manufactured and artificial value in which the wealthy love to indulge, a chase that seems quite stupid, perfectly unintelligent but harmless. "On the other hand, the collection of first editions is one of the finest and most effective methods of teaching English Literature. It necessitates a standard of judgment and the ability to balance carefully the attributes of a current book which will prevent it from gravitating rapidly to that tragic and enormous dump heap of ephemeral stuff. The Scorp often has questions of this kind put to him, perfect stavers, some of them! "Why isn't Hardy worth more now? Why are Kipling's Jungle Books worth more than some of his other books? Why is A. Edward |