Our Exchanges.

The Typographic Messenger is as usual well displayed, beautifully printed, and contains a useful collection of new things, more fully noted elsewhere. We note a correction, the « Pembroke » series, originated by Flinsch, having been wrongly attributed to another German house. In our May number, referring to this pretty letter, we naturally reproduced the erroneous statement. In Messrs Flinsch's book this style has no specific name, being merely indicated by numbers.—The first editorial in the present number is an appreciative article on trade journals.

Round's Printers' Cabinet is the first we have seen, though its name has long been familiar to us. It is a large folio, admirably printed, and distinguished by free and skilful rule-work in the display pages. The large frontispiece is a good illustration of the « Ives » process; and on the first page is a portrait and biography of the late Sterling P. Rounds, the founder of the paper. The article is written in a style very suggestive of that of Mr Thomas MacKellar. There is much valuable matter in the Cabinet. We learn that « since its former issue it has been through fire and water, and not a vestige of its original outfit remains to proclaim its identity. Every line has had to be re-set. »

Megill's Nick is as lively as ever. A sketch of the crowd at the italic case is very good.

Paper and Press for June is as usual beyond criticism. The special points of this paper are: its superb printing; its minute descriptions of new machines, including diagrams of all working parts; and the space it devotes to new processes. The finely executed pictures it contains, as advertisements of the modern engraving processes, constitute quite an art gallery. « Congratulations, » in the issue before us, is a lovely piece of work.

The Inland Printer is the largest, finest, and one of the most interesting of trade papers. Its strong point is its correspondence, from nearly all countries where printing is done.