Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[obituaries]
Mr John Palgrave Simpson, author and play-writer, died in London on 19th August.
M. Voirin, a well-known and ingenious printers' engineer, lately died at Paris, aged 60.
Mr Henry Mayhew, the first editor of Punch, and author of « London Labor and the London Poor, » died in London on 25th July.
At Great Yarmouth recently died the Rev. Joseph Philip Knight, the composer of « She wore a wreath of roses, » « Rocked in the cradle of the deep, » and many other songs, some of which, though more than half-a-century old, are still popular favorites. Mr Knight was born in 1812, and was ordained to the charge of St. Agnes, in the Scilly Isles.