The Archive · 1928

Great Literature Is Shown

The books used for this literary, fent are a Koran; an English dice tionary of 12,000 words book, said to be the smallest in the world with a movable type; a Testae ment; the Mite, which, up to 1896, was rated the world's smallest book; Robert Burns; a Petit Poucet; the French Constitution, in a golds stamped leather binding; a Gita, written in Sanskrit; a Tasche Kalen" dar; a Toras Mosche, judged tha smallest of Jewish books; and book of Scottish-Irish songs, with the music included, 4 One of the most retharkable fact apparent in the extensive collection, aside from the size, is the great range covered. Miniatures have peared in 22 languages, not ineluding the Scandinavian tongues, als {hough shorthand is numbered prome mently.

Range of subject matter appears to be equally wide, running as it does from cook books to verse, and from miniature newspapers down to telephone directories, that are 50

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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