Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

as far back as the middle of tn* sixteenth century. They are stanch old tomes, but the worms have bored their Aheat little tunnels quite through the heavy bindings of wood and leather. Some are pierced In this way from cover to cover and a few are gnawed by the rats. One book dated 1570 and written in Latin contains the works of "Euslbius, bishop of Csesarla, In Palestine.” /The covers aye a quarter of an inch thick and covered with leather and the front is closed with metal clasps. Anothei similar in date and binding is devoted to the works of Chrysostum. A sixteenth century Bible is over, two feet long. The front cover and back are torn off and reVeal the method of binding. The works of Justin, the philosopher and martyr, printed In Constantinople in 1686, are a curious commingling of Latin and Greek; and Is abundantly interlined with notes in the same languages.