Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . that the Ptinida? generally are not borersof wood? the chief mischief-maker m thismaterial being that minute insect towhich entomologists have given the alto-o-ether disproportionate name of Hypoth-%,emus eruditus Westwood, or the Hy-pothenemus hispedus, as it is describedbv Dr Le Conte in Trans. Amer. , t868, p. 156—Satis verborutn! The Columbian Harmonist, A ChoiceCollection of New Psalm Times ofAmerican Composition, by Daniel Read,New Haven, Connecticut, 1793. which lies before us, is clad in its original home-ly, but what has proved
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . that the Ptinida? generally are not borersof wood? the chief mischief-maker m thismaterial being that minute insect towhich entomologists have given the alto-o-ether disproportionate name of Hypoth-%,emus eruditus Westwood, or the Hy-pothenemus hispedus, as it is describedbv Dr Le Conte in Trans. Amer. , t868, p. 156—Satis verborutn! The Columbian Harmonist, A ChoiceCollection of New Psalm Times ofAmerican Composition, by Daniel Read,New Haven, Connecticut, 1793. which lies before us, is clad in its original home-ly, but what has proved to be a fairlyserviceable, coat of brown sheepskin. Itmakes no bibliopegistic pretensions what-ever, and simplv represents the rank andfile of the bindings of the day. Thisquaint old Psalm Singer, which belongsto an age when the singing of psalmswas an act of devotion and not an amuse-ment among the people, sings of simplepieties, and is as plain and unadornedwithin as without; but doubtless thevoung men of the village church choir KALEVIMAG
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