Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 21 (29 September 1888)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1888, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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What are « religious » papers coming to? One in this colony habitually prefixes the expletive « b— » (in full) to the name of an English statesman. More like a bullock-driver than a religious editor!

It will be news to most people that Sara Bernhardt completed her 145th year last April. The Manawatu Times, in an article headed « Sarah's Age, » states that the noted actress was born at Havre on Saturday, April 22, 1743! Two other celebrated actresses, according to the same authority, are well advanced in their second century, as it states that « Madame Bernhardt is five or six years older than Mrs Kendal, and has probably by some years the advantage (or disadvantage) of Miss Ellen Terry. » In view of this remarkable longevity of actresses, the old gentleman in Punch who says to his grandson, « I was in love with her myself, my boy, when I was your age, » may have been guilty of no exaggeration.