The magazine of American history with notes and queries . rable book—the author, the publisher,the printer, the reader, the compositor, thepressman or machinist, the paper-maker, theink-maker, the book-binder, and the last notleast, the consumer, often ignorant and carelessof the beauty and proportions of his books—agreat sinner. Mr. Stevens does not attempt topoint out who is the greatest or the least ofthese ten sinners, but he goes to prove with un-questionable logic that either one of them canspoil a good book in spite of the combinedefforts and merits of the other nine ; and thatwhen two
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . rable book—the author, the publisher,the printer, the reader, the compositor, thepressman or machinist, the paper-maker, theink-maker, the book-binder, and the last notleast, the consumer, often ignorant and carelessof the beauty and proportions of his books—agreat sinner. Mr. Stevens does not attempt topoint out who is the greatest or the least ofthese ten sinners, but he goes to prove with un-questionable logic that either one of them canspoil a good book in spite of the combinedefforts and merits of the other nine ; and thatwhen two or three unite in their ignorance andmechanical blindness, nothing but accident cansave the production. The question of hon-esty or good intentions dees not come into thediscussion at all, but the clumsy manipulationsthrough which harmony is defeated, in spite ofthe excellence of the great majority of the partiesto the manufacture. ANNOUNCEMENT.—The Magazine willpublish in April an interesting group of por-traits—The Framers of the ,..... V, o JI,lU
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