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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[trade dispatches]

A new pantograph, of ingenious and simple construction, has been invented by Lieut. C. S. Riché, New York. In addition to reducing and enlarging, it can be made to distort or caricature, or reverse a drawing. This latter quality makes it specially useful to engravers and lithographers.

An awkward mishap occurred in the Hawke's Bay Herald office yesterday morning. As a form of advertisements was being lowered to the press-room, it fell out of the lift, resulting in « the wreck of matter and the crash of words. » Over a hundredweight of pie— mostly nonpareil—lay around; and as there was no time to remedy the disaster, the paper came out with the fourth page blank.

The Volunteer and Civil Service Gazette has an infallible remedy for all the evils under which the colony labors. Vote « straight » for the party who by liberal expenditure for « defence » will make New Zealand « take a leading position. » Nothing like leather! The colony will suffer for years to come from the mad waste of half-a-million on worthless fortifications during the last war scare.

The latest London advertising horror is thus described:—« With an india-rubber boot, a rubber stamp fixed on the sole thereof, and an inking apparatus worked from the trousers pocket down into the boot, the advertising fiend soon covers the flagged footpaths with no end of printed announcements. » This is a good deal quicker and more ingenious than the stencil advertising nuisance which was suppressed in Wellington by a special borough bye-law.

New Zealand (says the London Paper and Printing Trades Journal) makes the latest addition to the long list of typographical journals in the form of a monthly four-page [sic] quarto entitled Typo, printed and published by R. C. Harding, of Napier, and intended to represent the printing, stationery, bookselling, and fancy trades of the colony. The initial number is very neatly got up in modern type with treble-rule borders and judicious ornamentation in headings and initials, while the contents, both original and selected, shew that editorially it is in practised hands. We have scissored a few items from its pages for the benefit of our readers.

Mr H. Sell, 167-8 Fleet-street, London, has sent us a copy of his Dictionary of the World's Press for 1887—a wonderful work for a florin. We have found the volume for 1886 a valuable book of reference during the past year; and the present issue—a large 8vo of some 1300 pages—is nearly double the size of that of last year. Moreover, the colonial information is more fully and correctly given. The book is freely illustrated, containing portraits, autographs, fac-similes of celebrated newspapers, &c., also valuable original articles on subjects of interest to journalists and advertisers. It contains among other departments, a complete alphabetical list of the four thousand periodical publications—daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual— published in Great Britain, with date of publication, price, and other particulars. The book should be in the office of every journalist and bookseller.