. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . andtrustworthy people. He states that in 1440 Ros-ter, who was then living at Haarlem, while oneday walking in the Hout, or woods near the city,^cut letters on the bark of a beech-tree; that heprinted these letters on paper for the amusementof children; that he invented a suitable printing-ink, and afterwards printed whole sheets withpictures; and that still later he used leaden let-ters and then tin ones. Junius also states that in1441 one of Rosters workmen stole the types andfled to Mainz, where he opened a workshop andpublished two works
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . andtrustworthy people. He states that in 1440 Ros-ter, who was then living at Haarlem, while oneday walking in the Hout, or woods near the city,^cut letters on the bark of a beech-tree; that heprinted these letters on paper for the amusementof children; that he invented a suitable printing-ink, and afterwards printed whole sheets withpictures; and that still later he used leaden let-ters and then tin ones. Junius also states that in1441 one of Rosters workmen stole the types andfled to Mainz, where he opened a workshop andpublished two works with these types in 1442. The most severe assault upon the claim of Ros-ter was made in 1870 by a Dutchman, Dr. vander Linde. He published a series of articlesentitled The Koster Legend, in which he claimedthat the documents brought forward to proveRoster the inventor of printing were false, andthat the arguments in his favor had no historical 1 It will be noticed that this date is about a century and a halflater than the invention of STATUE OF GUTENBERG AT STRASBURG. [From a Photograph.] INVENTION OF TYPOGRAPHY 37 or bibliographical support. The work arousedsuch indignation in Holland that Dr. van der Lindethought it advisable to leave the country. Hessels,also a native of Holland, took up the subject, andafter considerable research, he pubHshed in 1882,a book in which he stated that he could findnothing to prove Gutenberg the inventor of print-ing. The controversy between the two authors waskept up for some time, but the Koster theory hasbeen abandoned everyivhere except in Holland. The art begun at Mainz soon spread to other ^^^^ ^cities and to other countries. Travelers were con- typography,stantly passing through this town to the Nether-lands, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Thequarrel of the archbishops in 1462 dispersed theprinters and probably sent Ulrich Zell to were soon set up in other cities, and bythe end of the fifteenth century more t
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