Trade Catalogues.

Mr Henry Frowde sends us a handsomely-printed catalogue of the unrivalled productions of the Clarendon Press.

From Messrs Sydney J. Saunders & Co., we have received a neatly printed wholesale price list, and a packet of samples of stationery, of varied quality, and marvellously cheap.

Messrs C. Goodall & Sons, send us their price-list of plain and ornamental stationery, programme and memorial cards, playing cards, &c.

The « Durable » Printers' Boiler Company, 57 Shoe-lane, London, E. C., send us a neat card in four colors, from which we gather that the company have opened a correspondence-room, where trade papers are filed, letters may be received and addressed, and interviews held.

Mr G. Mitchell, Christchurch, importer of printing and bookbinding materials, sends us a four-page quarto circular. The work is that of a good job compositor, but the display is spoiled for want of unity of effect. In one page there are twelve combinations and nineteen founts of type, in another, six combinations and twenty founts. No compositor, however skilled, could combine such alien styles as pen-flourishes and the Victoria, Japanese, and Egyptian borders, into a satisfactory design.