a little Calvin before he went to bed was
without its effect on his devotion to Calvinism? Erasmus, the wittiest
of scholars, writing nearly four hundred years ago to his special
friend, Christian of Lubeck, recommends the practice both of the evening
instruction and the morning review as something that he himself has
followed from his childhood; and we cannot doubt that in it he reveals
one of the secrets of his world-wide influence. He says to his youthful
friend: "A little before you go to sleep read something choice and worth
remembering, and think it over until you fall asleep. When you awake in
the morning make yourself give an account of it." Though this is clearly
an application of the principle to study and the strengthening of the
memory, experiment will show that the potency of Forethought is not
limited to the memory or the intellect in general, but applies to man's
entire nature and equally to the least and the greatest of its
concerns.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The substance of an address delivered Nov. 18, 1909, in the Boston
Public Library, under the auspices of the Society of Printers.

[2] The address here summarized was printed at the Chiswick Press and
published at Christmas, 1884. Mr. Stevens died early in 1886, leaving a
posthumous book entitled "Recollections of Mr. James Lenox," which was
printed in the same year at the Chiswick Press, and which is of great
interest to booklovers, especially Americans.

[3] Mr. Edison's projected substitute for paper, sheets of nickel,
20,000 to the inch, may indicate the book material of the future, but at
present it is only a startling possibility.

[4] The type in which this book is printed is a modern Bodoni, cut in
Italy, and was chosen for its elegance rather than to illustrate the
latest results in legibility of type design.

[5] See "Simplified Spelling in Writing and Printing; a Publisher's
Point of View," by Henry Holt, LL.D., New York, 1906. About one half the
expense falls within the domain of printing.

INDEX

INDEX

ABILITY, cannot be created, 164.

Accents, their help in reading poetry, 17, 18.

AEschylus, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 67.

Aldine edition of the British Poets, by Pickering, 23, 24.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, his "Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book," 87, 88.

Aldus, Alduses and Elzevirs contrasted, 23;
beauty in his work, 4;
bindings of, 100;
his characteristic book, 21;
his example followed b