Haarlem, the Birth-Place of Printing - Not Mentz #230138

It is an unfortunate feature in Dr. Van der Linde's works on the invention of printing that what should form their most essential part namely, a bibliographical treatment of the subject — is singularly unreliable, or altogether wanting. This feature is even more marked in the present than in any of his previous publications. The remainder of the book, that is to say, its polemical part, bears undoubtedly traces of talent; but it cannot benefit anyone much, as it is nothing but a needlessly discursive repetition, for the fourth time, of the mistakes and errors of judgment of previous authors on the subject; repetitions which Dr. Van der Linde evidently writes down under the agreeable impression that he himself never makes any mistakes at all.