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Show Gutenberg Not First j to Use Movable Typ The first book primed in Europe with movable type w the famous Gutenber? Bible. It was printed In 1430-55. P.eside It Doctor Vollbelir , recently exhibited a Chinese book j printed' with movable types long he-fore he-fore the Gutenberg Bible appeared, and indeed the Chinese printer Pi had 60 printed books 900 years before Gutenberg Gut-enberg was born. In all that time the Chinese had been using movable type, publishing books of such beauty and perfection that they are today the admiration ad-miration of all bibliophiles, and Europe Eu-rope knew nothing about It. Not even Marco Polo, who went to China In the middle of the Thirteenth century and became the guest of Kublai Khan, brought back to Europe the Invention j that was to electrify civilization. , Within 25 years after the Gutenberg , Bible came out, printing with movable tvpe had spread Into every civilized , country in Europe. Fifty years later the French and Italians particularly , bad joined the Germans in the print- ; lng of books which for craftsmanship , and typography have not been surpassed sur-passed from that time to this. How big the world was In that distant dis-tant time I How wholly unlike It Is our world of today, In which not only news flies daily between this country coun-try and China, but as like as not there is In the oriental sky somewhere a western plane on a non-stop "flight j from London or Pari to one of the capitals of Asia. Imagine a uuten-berg uuten-berg in our time announcing a discovery discov-ery 900 years old I |