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where we found priced samples of the latest publications of the 

 association and many other trade conveniences, but near by was 

 an adjunct that was more interesting still, the Buchgewerbehaus. 

 This is open to the public and contains, beside the museum, the 

 fine Gutenberghalle, decorated with mural paintings by Sascha 

 Schneider, a statue of the great printer, and busts of Senefelder the 

 inventor of lithography, and Konig the inventor of the power press. 

 The museum of the Book Trade started in the acquisition (in 1886), 



63. JIAROUESAX CARVED BOX. 



by the Government of Saxony, of the Klemm collection of early 

 printing, and in this were specimens from the eighteen towns 

 that had printing presses before 1471, and a copy of the famous 

 Gutenberg 42-line Bible printed at Mainz, 1450-55. To these are 

 added collections and models representing the technical processes 

 of book making — printing, illustrating, binding, a fairly complete 

 and exceedingly instructive museum. 



From these arts of peace we were driven to the field of the 

 battle of Leipzig ( Oct. 16-19, I 8i3), that terrible slaughter in which 

 some 450,000 men were engaged and a quarter of them were 

 killed by the rest. To commemorate this humane achievement a 

 most imposing monument is being erected and will doubtless be 



ready for the centennial of the battle. 



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