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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
The Auckland Bell should have its clapper taken out and cleaned. In a late issue it referred editorially to « the damned scoundrels who misrepresent us in Wellington. »
Among other exhibits by Messrs Spalding & Hodge, papermakers, at the Adelaide exhibition, is a roll of tissue paper, nine miles in length, and weighing 3½ tons.
Messrs Schlag & Barthel, Leipzig, send us illustrated circulars showing non-explosive steam boilers, steam pumps, &c.; also of hand-lever and treadle job printing presses.
As a pendant to the paragraph we quoted on p. 37 regarding the comparative popularity of English novels, the following, from an American exchange, is interesting: Something like a million copies of East Lynne have been sold in America, and the writer never received one penny from them. The same is true of some fifty thousand performances of the play, which under a copyright would have brought her in £100,000.