Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 33: July, 1959 Even the physical properties of a good book should satisfy the senses. Fingers move over binding and page. Does the volume handle well? Good buckram or tooled leather soothes the tactile members. Has, the binder reached that golden balance between tightness which demands a maddening effort and slackness which sur renders form and shape And Observe the title page. Is it the open door, the greeting which says, Come in? And that paper, does a crude gloss blind tired eyes, or is the stock good and substantial to the purpose, urging the finger tips to turn the page and yet another and another? Is it a paper into which type may bite with certainty and yet without mutilation of the stock? And that type, what history is hinted in those curves and kerns! The ponderous Black Letter, imitating the art of the medieval calligrapher, gives way to the fine spun Caslon, and then later to more dramatic modern faces. The main point: does the type blend with the subject discussed? Is there basic harmony in composi tion? Question piles on question, but all of the queries come back to the problem of use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.