| Show this man could split hairs lucius poole choso whoso den iu springfield street boston is famous amborg antiquarians anu do more wonderful things with a sheet of paper than any one elso in america perhaps iu ohp world not only can ho dovetail skive ellico and inlay but he can split that is tho most difficult achievement in the whole art of book patching mr poolo will taku a leaf from any of tho current magazines and slice it three times through its antiro length and width thereby making four sheets instead of one each of just one quarter the thickness of the original splitting hairs is rough work beside a job like that buo ouo of mr pooles is to au imperfect picture from a page and then insert one iu its elead so deftly that only the closest scrutiny will discover that a fiber his been disturbed another is to plant a photograph on the page of a book so that one cannot toll it was not printed there originally when mr poolo is asked to toll how he performs his feats he says oh its juat by work partly natural and partly acquired it would tako a year to explain tho details new York Presa |
