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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 6
[literature of the South Seas]
Librarians and other interested in the literature of the South Seas will find some interesting works offered for sale in this issue. It is not often that these books are in the market.
Mr Carnegie still lives and learns. He gave Mr Keir Hardie £100 to assist his candidature. With grim humor, the Triumphant Democrat sent the money to the millionaire's revolted laborers at Homestead, who had just hanged their employer in effigy because they could not lay hold of him in person.
Mr Wright, of Buffalo, sends us No. 31 of his monthly calendar-blotters. It has a most realistic imitation of a torn newspaper item stuck down upon it. It is headed « A Truly Electric Printer. » The ragged scrap is tinted in exact imitation of the miserable pine-wood stuff on which cheap dailies are printed, and the illusion is heightened by that portion being slightly embossed. All around the scrap are lightning-flashes in gold.
The amount of literature printed in the Welsh language is remarkable. A contemporary states that five years ago seventeen weekly newspapers were published in that language, besides many periodicals issued at longer intervals, one quarterly having nearly forty thousand subscribers. A Welsh lexicon now in course of publication has completed its first volume, of more than 400 pp. quarto; yet it only reaches the end of the first letter of the alphabet.
« A Modern Triumvirate » is the name of a beautiful little « booklet » published by Bartlett & Co., designers, engravers, and printers, 21-23 Rose-st., New York. It is their advertisement, the triumvirate being the three members of the firm. The cover is a beautiful piece of combined tint and embossed work, the heads of the three prototypo-graphers, medallions with printers' emblems, and the floral ornamentation of the page being brought out in cameo style with fine effect. The interior is one of the daintiest pieces of art-printing that it has been our lot to meet. The title-page, with its delicate representation of classic bas-reliefs, is a triumph of process-engraving and fine presswork. The text is in elzevir type, in brown, with vignette sketches of the different departments beautifully worked in tints. The business card of the firm, enclosed, is also a beautiful piece of work.
We found recently (says the Temuka Leader) that one of our subscribers had not paid us for the last four-and-a-half years, and we sent him a polite reminder. He took no notice; we sent another more urgent request for payment, but he treated the matter with silent contempt. We then stopped the paper, and threatened to sue for it, and when our collector called for the money he was told that it was very mean of us to stop the paper. We allowed another subscriber to run five years, and had in the end to sue him. He then paid up, and told us that after having patronised the paper so long it was a most ungrateful thing on our part to sue him, and he promised that in the future he would do us all the harm he could.—All we desire to add is, that it costs over £1000 a year to carry on this paper, and that we cannot pay that unless people pay us. We do not want subscribers who do not pay—we can get on without them.