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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

Our First Volume

page 92

Our First Volume.

With the present issue, we complete the first volume of Typo. In our introductory article, we set forth the objects and scope of our publication; and we think our readers will agree that the programme there laid down has been adhered to. In the whole of the Australian colonies there is no other periodical occupying a similar field; and the results of our year's work have justified our belief that such an organ was required. In our columns will be found chronicled every important event in connexion with the New Zealand press during the past year; the departments devoted to type specimens and new inventions have given our readers a wider outlook over the world's work in the noblest of all arts; while many an excellent «notch» and valuable «wrinkle» is to be found in our pages. Those who have been careful enough to file our back numbers will find them of much interest and value for reference in years to come. We have had much to encourage and gratify us in the brief period since we took this work in hand. The colonial press has, with one accord, noticed our paper from month to month in the most favorable manner, and our criticisms of contemporaries have been received in good part as they were written. We have a most satisfactory list of English and foreign exchanges, including nearly all the leading trade journals of the world of literature. They reach us from the Mother Country, from all parts of the United States, from the German Empire, from France, Belgium, Spain, and even from the far-away states on the banks of the Danube. They are all welcome, and from all of them we can gather matter of interest to ourselves and value to our readers. One and all, they have referred to our advent in the most kindly terms. Even as we write, the senior English trade paper, the Printers' Register, comes to us, containing a leading article, quoting freely from our columns, referring to Typo as an « admirable and essentially practical » paper. By the same mail, a leading English printer writes to us in very similar terms, indicating the series of articles on « Design in Typography » as «especially valuable.» Other communications, equally gratifying, we have received from men who stand in the front rank of the world's printers, and also from the heads of typefoundries whose names are household words. Not less pleasant are the letters we have had from young men—apprentices and learners—who testify to the helpful nature of the articles in our pages. We have published no «padding»; in fact, each month we have marked for quotation columns of valuable practical matter which we have been obliged to omit. We are somewhat «cabined, cribbed, confined»; our size is as great as the support we at present receive will permit; and we will be glad to increase the number of our pages, and the quantity of useful matter published from month to month, when we are warranted in so doing.