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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[trade dispatches]

A very useful Dictionary of Typography and Lithography is being published from month to month in La Typologie-Tucker.

The book trade in China is being revolutionized by the art of photo-lithography. Most of the books issued in that country are reprints of standard works, and the cutting new blocks is always attended with liability to error. For the reproduction of such works, the art of photo-lithography is specially adapted. Two firms at Shanghai, one English and one native, are at work in this direction, and some editions of classical works have been turned out, the quality and cheapness of which have made the Chinese students enthusiastic.

An Auckland paper of the baser sort recently lampooned the wife of a college professor in some doggrel lines. The lady was addressed by her Christian name, and the attack was not only scurrilous, but indecent. No daily newspaper in the colony would deliberately have copied such offensive matter; but the writer, by sending it abroad as a press telegram, succeeded in smuggling it into some of them. Subeditors cannot be too watchful of items, especially by wire, from unknown correspondents. By the inadvertent publication of such malicious matter, they not only injure their reputation, but may incur serious penalties under the libel laws.

To an Englishman who happens to travel in the United States (says the Printing Times) the characteristic of the American business programme which strikes him most forcibly is, that tradesmen are doggedly resolved to do one of two things, either to produce a somewhat inferior article in immense quantities at a price hitherto unheard of, or to produce, regardless of cost, some article superior of its kind to all other similar ones. No one seems content with mediocre aims in business. It must be big, either the best work possible, regardless of expense, or an immense output of inferior stuff at the lowest price; but of the two, the best class has by far the greater number of votaries.