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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
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We have to acknowledge with thanks the following exchanges: Inland Printer, Chicago (from October, 1886); Paper and Press, Philadelphia (from April, 1887); Art Age, New York (from January, 1887); Printers' Album, Chicago (from April, 1887); Typologie-Tucker, Paris (from April, 1887); Allgemeiner Anzeiger für Druckereien, Frankfurt (from April, 1887); Revista Tipográfica, Madrid (from February, 1887.)
During a recent strike of book-printers in Leipzig, the Government forced all book-printers serving in the army in that section to take the place of the strikers.
Mr William Stevens, a noted printer, and well known as the proprietor and publisher of the Family Herald, died in April, at the age of 80.
Mr John Godfrey Saxe, a well-known American poet, died in the month of April, at New York. Mr Saxe was born in Vermont in 1816, and practised law in his early life. His first volume of poems appeared in 1849, and he soon afterwards devoted himself to literature and lecturing.
Our American contemporaries record the death, on April 19th, in the 54th year of his age, of Mr Robert S. Menamin, editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Printers' Circular, and member of various typographical societies. He had conducted the Circular for twenty years.
Mr Zenas Marshall Crane, the veteran paper manufacturer of Dalton, Mass., and one of the most notable figures in the history of the trade in America, died suddenly in his office on the 12th March. He was in his 73rd year, and in apparent good health and spirits to the very moment of his death.
La Typologie-Tucker records the death, at the good old age of 89, of M. Pierre Théotiste Lefevre, a distinguished printer, and author of valuable practical treatises on the art. M. Lefevre took great interest in extending the industrial opportunities of women, and in 1879 organized a school for the instruction of female compositors.