just where in the new world your city of Portland lies; I only know that Mr. Mosher lives there."

Altho so famous among all men of literary insight and sympathy in every nation and country where rare and beautiful books are read and cherished, Mr. Mosher was entirely unknown to a great majority of the people of Portland. He lived a life withdrawn from most of the ordinary modern activities. Heart and soul were centered in his literary work; and except for a small circle of warm and faithful friends his figure was not seen among any of the social groups of his city, and he was thus left free from the time-wasting demands of active social life. His little shop of a few simple rooms up a dusty flight of ancient stairs at Number Forty-five contained none of the elaborate machinery of modern business. He had a faithful and highly efficient secretary, and with a typist or two and a man to fill the mail orders, the work of the office was carried quietly on.

Here, thru the medium of a correspondence, which ought sometime to rank high in the annals of letter writing he held communication with the choice literary spirits of the world; and here he saw with satisfaction the accumulation of very handsome financial returns coming from the same sincere admirers who had supported the little enterprise of the nineties and seen it grow in the years of the new century into a profitable business.

To Mr. Mosher's desk at Number Fortyfive came thousands of scarce and priceless books, searched for and found for him in all the book marts of the world. He was, in the best sense of the word, a collector of rare and beautiful books in belles lettres, not for the satisfaction of owning them only, for from the rarest and scarcest of these were made the Mosher Reprints. To obtain the best edition of a rare book of limited issue, having an authentic text and, perhaps, the author's annotations in the margins, and to edit and reprint such a book in a beautiful manner and to offer it to a wider reading public at an always reasonable price was an example of the great service which Mr. Mosher did for his countrymen and the world of booklovers at large.

So in a lifetime of gathering so many choice volumes Mr. Mosher has accumulated a wonderful library, of its own particular kind the best, perhaps, in America, perhaps the best in the world. A large number of these farsought volumes remained upon the book-lined shelves of Number Forty-five. In the midst of these books, sitting before the log-fire in the old-fashioned fireplace, listening to Mr. Mosher's talk of men and books and his own unique experience as a book-hunter, partaking

of his genial humor and enjoying his occasional satirical comment, is a memory which some men and women who now survive and mourn, -and yet are glad that they knew this room and him who, by his genius and presence made it unlike any other room in the world—will cherish thru the remainder of life.

The great library, however, was at Mr. Mosher's home in the Deering District. Here were fireproof arrangements for the protection of his choicest literary treasures. It is an ample home, built on generous lines, where a charming household maintains the best traditions of American family life. Here Mr. Mosher pursued his serious literary studies working habitually into the small hours of the morning, secure from noisy interruption of every kind, alone with that peculiar genius with which from birth he was generously endowed, and from which he gave to the world his best.

And so on toward the twilight he lived and worked. With supreme satisfaction he saw his dreams come true. He felt that his efforts had been of use and benefit to his fellowbooklovers, and perhaps to the world of those who are to come after. The reaction upon his own life had been gratifying to himself; and toward the end he said:

"But, oh! how many things crowd upon us in the evening, or rather, shall I say, in the twilight of our days; and how little time we have to work out the immanent beauty which comes at the close and not at the dawn of life! Finally, it seems to me that all beauty is the slow evolution of the soul, and while some at the very start have had The Perfect Vision, to others and indeed to most of us, it is not permitted. We must wait and are fortunate if we lay hold upon the unfading flower which produced them all,-that Protean energy-the Soul of Man.

"Therefore, it is better to accept these shapes and shadows of undying realities and aspirations and leave you, who care for what I say or what I have attempted to do, to your own interpretation of the true and permanent in literature as outlined by me. For 'as a great verse out of casual speech' is 'forged in fire' even so, out of these books that were in my heart and should reach other hearts, I transmit the word as I have received it."

IN CONNECTION with the publishing of a collective edition of Vachel Lindsay's poems, Macmillan has pointed out that about a half million students, at least, have heard Mr. Lindsay read his poems and that those who have heard him never forget. This is great proof there is a vast potential audience of Lindsay enthusiasts.

Now in Print

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Obituary Note

WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER

WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, author of a number of notable biographies, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on September 7th., after a prolonged illness. He was born in Boston in 1859, graduated at Harvard University in 1883 and for more than twenty years edited the Harvard Graduate Magazine. In the early eighties, he was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. In his time, he was actively associated with a number of learned societies, and among the honors bestowed upon him were two from Italy in recognition of services to that nation. He was vice president of the League to Enforce Peace. His published writings are as follows:

"Confessions of Hermes," 1884; "Hesper," 1888; "The Best Elizabethan Plays," 1890; "The Dawn of Italian Independence," 1893; "Poems, New and Old," 1894; "History and Customs of Harvard University," 1898; "Trone-Makers," 1899; "A Short History of Venice," 1905; "Italica," 1908; "Life and Times of Cavour," 2 vols., 1911; "Life and Letters of John Hay," 2 vols., 1915; "Germany VS. Civilization," 1916; "Letters of John Holmes (edited), 1917; "Collapse of Superman," 1917; "Theodore Roosevelt-An Intimate Biography." 1919; "Life and Times of George Washington," 1922. He was awarded the gold medal for biography by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1918.

Communications

Editor, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

THE PRINTING CONTROVERSY

New York, Sept. 6, 1923

In view of Henry Louis Bullen's claim that Gutenberg was the inventor of printing, may I direct your attention to the enclosed?

As you will see therefrom, attention was first drawn to the subject by me in The Times of July 16. In so far as the Bullen presentation is concerned, it is hopelessly untenable, as has been proved conclusively more than once since 1910. If you have any doubt about this, take down the last volume of your copy of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and read what you will find there under "Typography."

Theodore De Vinne, master printer of New

York City, on page 79 of his "Plain Printing Types," written in 1899 said, "Many writings of the fifteenth century testify that John Gutenberg was then regarded as the inventor of typography;" but, in his "Treatise on Title Pages," written in 1902, De Vinne prints (pages 14-15) a reduced facsimile of a colophon from the "Compendium of Trithemous," printed by John Schoeffer at Mainz in 1515, which relates in part "Fust at length began by his own unaided genius to devise and experiment upon a method of printing. This, with the aid of divine grace he perfected and applied to practical purposes in the year 1442." Mr. Bullen has shown that the claim that Gutenberg invented printing is supported by forged documents.

Perhaps readers of "THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY" can throw light upon the Aaron Hamon who, Steinschneider says, was established as a printer in Constantinople in 1423. See his "Catalogue of Hebrew Books in the Bodleian Library," at Oxford.

There is little doubt that printing existed in Asia, and also in Europe, before 1423, for history contains many references to the destruction of books-by the Crusaders while on their marches to the East, and by other conquerors, marching westward.

Yours very cordially,

Frank H. Vizetelly.

Periodical Notes

"THE LIBERTARIAN, AN ANTI-BLUE-LAW MAGAZINE" is a new quarterly issued as the official organ of the Libertarian League at 4209 Eastside Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cal.

WITH the September 1st issue, the new book page appears in Farm and Fireside, edited by Edward Anthony of the New York Herald. The page is to discuss personalities and books in a way that will bring current publications to the interest of the rural free delivery reader. The same issue has an article on a library that travels from farm to farm, written by Dorothy Eisenhardt, librarian at Gas City, Ind.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.-F. F. Hansell & Brother celebrated on September 5th their fifteenth anniversary in connection with the formal opening and inspection of their new offices and showrooms at 404-412 Carondelet Street.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Fernald & Co. have moved to 2434 Thirteenth Street, N. W., two blocks nearer the Central High School.

WATERVILLE, ME.-Carlton P. Cook has purchased the business of H. L. Kelly & Co., dealers in books and periodicals.

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