Obituary.

Bruce.—David Bruce, the venerable American patriarch of typefoundmg, and inventor of the type-casting machine which revolutioned the art, died on 14th September, at Williamsburg, New York, aged 91. He had retired from business for twenty years past, but still took a keen interest in the craft, and was up to the last a contributor to the trade journals.

Bloss.—On 3rd September, at Chicago, Major William Bloss, late editor of the Graphic, in his 61st year. He was actively engaged in the war of the Union, and a severe wound received at Antietam in September, 1863, was the real though distant cause of his death. As the most illegible writer in the United States—probably in the world—he had become famous. Few offices in the States some years ago were without a sheet of his copy stuck up as a specimen. Horace Greeley's caligraphy was easy compared with his, which it required a special education to decipher. A facsimile page, with interpretation, was published many years ago in the London Printers' Register as a curiosity. Major Bloss leaves a widow, two sons, and a daughter.

Curtis.—At Staten Island, on 31st August, Mr George William Curtis, author, editor, and orator; editor of the « Easy Chair » in Harper; one of the best known literary men in the United States. In 1846, at the age of 22, he went on a four years' tour, embracing Europe, Palestine, and various countries of the east. « Nile Notes of a Howadji, » (1851); « The Howadji in Syria, » (1852), and other well-known books were the result of the trip. At the time of his death he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of the State of New York. A beautiful portrait of Mr Curtis (as well as an equally fine one of Whittier), appears in the Paper World for September. Mr Curtis, was in all respects a gentleman of the highest honor and rectitude, and most courteous in all his methods, whether private or literary. His salary from Harper Brothers, with whom for forty years he had been connected, was $20,000 a year.