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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4

Our Exchanges

page 47

Our Exchanges.

The British Printer (Nov.-Dec.) contains as usual much valuable matter, and some grand specimens of printing. The title-page to vol. ii, by Raithby & Lawrence—a bold design with the whole background in gold, and adorned at one corner with holly leaves and berries and a redbreast, in colors, is a grand piece of typography.

The Inland Printer for February is a fine number. We note an article on the eight-hour system, by our friend Tom L. Mills, entitled « A Third of a Day. » He describes the operation of the system in New Zealand. The same issue contains a marvellous piece of rule-work— « The Alps in Winter » —design and shaded lettering alike composed of rule. The artist is M. Charles Böhy, compositor, rue Séguier 14, Paris. In rule-work France certainly takes the lead.

There is scarcely a branch of the art of printing that is not exhaustively treated in the technical pages of one or other of the trade journals. In our able contemporary, the Gutenburg Journal, of Paris, a very valuable series of articles on the composition of mathematical matter is in course of publication. Over thirty chapters have already appeared, and every branch of this class of work is minutely examined. From the style of composition (double-column) we imagine that the treatise is being separately printed in book-form, thus adding another to the many useful technical works on printing. The author is M. Ch. Polguère.

No. 10 of The Torch (vol. iii) contains a good portrait of the late Robert Browning. This periodical is no mere catalogue of book-titles, but is of real value as a bibliography, especially of works relating to the colonies.

In the American Bookmaker for February, Mr W. Creed, in his « Short Talks on Practical Bookbinding, » gives instructions in marbling. We note excellent articles on « Orthography in the Composing-room, » and on « Shaking Cases » —the injury to type through the latter slovenly practice being well described. Mr H. G. Bishop writes on provision for aged printers; and there are, as usual, valuable illustrated articles on book-decoration and new faces of type.

The St. Louis Stationer for February is full of valuable trade matter, and has a fine show of advertisements. It contains a very curious and ingenious diagram of a locomotive wheel, lettered so as to represent twelve railway lines radiating into as many different states—St. Louis of course figuring as the « hub. » The report of the business meeting of the Missouri Press Association, held on 24th January, is interesting reading.

From Mr D. Ramaley, St. Paul, Minn., we have the remaining numbers of the Employing Printer, now discontinued. Possibly the scope of this journal, as distinguished from the established trade papers, was not wide enough to make it a commercial success. It is well worthy of preservation, containing many useful tables relating to cost of work and office expenses, which are not to be found elsewhere.

For the future, Messrs Shniedewend & Lee's publication the Electrotyper (Chicago) will be discontinued, and merged in their Printer's Album, which will be enlarged and otherwise improved. The Electrotyper has been published for sixteen years.