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Show l'enmanship at the Vatican. Autotype machines have just been served Out for the first time to some of the copying clerks at. the Vatican, but they are only to be used for the roughest kind of proof work which has to be done in a hurry The pope dislikes the Innovation, Inno-vation, for be is anxious and rightly w w-not to break up the admirable school of penmanship which flourishes at the Vatican. There is no such writing in the world as that which is seen on the documents sent out. by the Curia All the copying clerks of the first rank are priests; and monks, and many of them real artists in oaligraphy. They are allowed al-lowed to exercise their fancy in the tracing trac-ing of illuminated capitals and ornamental ornament-al rubrics or margins, but there must not be f single erasure on a page which has to be issued in the pope's name. A misplaced comma causes a whole page to be rewritten. Letter to Glasgow Herald. |