SOME EARLY AMERICAN WRITING BOOKS AND MASTERS
by Ray Nash,Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1943, 25 pages, $1.50.
Mr. Nash's talk to the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston on early American writing books has been expanded into a delightfully printed volume, with many facsimiles, which may be obtained from the Harvard College Library. The edition was limited to 225 copies. The examples were taken from Mr. Nash's own collection.
There is very little material available on early American penmanship so this little book becomes important as it is perhaps the first survey of its kind. Undoubtedly there should follow a longer and more detailed study which the reviewer hopes Mr. Nash may sometime have time to do.
As space here is decidedly limited the .reviewer suggests that any one interested in handwriting, Spencerian, or otherwise, turn to Lawrence C. Wroth's rather full comments on Mr. Nash's brochure which was printed in Notes for Bibliophiles in the New York Herald-Tribune of Sunday, June 13, 1943. Or better still order the book itself.
It is a competent job as are all of Mr. Nash's ventures in print.
Mapping Western Canada—The Red RiverValley, by Professor Trevor Lloyd, appears in the May issue of Canadian Geographical Journal. Professor Lloyd is also the author of TheMackenzie Waterway: A Northern SupplyRoute, which appears in the July issue of TheGeographical Review.
Conflict, Frustration and Fatigue, by Professor S. Howard Bartley, has been reprinted from the April issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Professor Bartley is also the author of Vision, which is part 1 of Sense Organs, by Bartley and Hallowell Davis, reprinted from the 1943 issue of the Annual Review of Physiology.
There has been published in mimeograph form a pamphlet of 33 pages plus a 2 page supplement, Summary of a Survey of PhysicalEducation Departments and Programs ofNineteen Colleges and Universities in theUnited States. This summary was prepared by Professor Sidney C. Hazelton '09.
