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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
The following figures show approximately the comparative popularity of the leading English female novelists. The sales of Miss Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret amount to 450,000 copies; Mrs Wood's East Lynne, 120,000; Miss Muloch's John Halifax, Gentleman, 90,000.
A late number of the American Inventor of Cincinnati, says:—« We print this month's issue for the first time by means of electricity. The Sprague motor is used; and is an immense advance on any other kind of power. We are running four presses with a single motor, and it is quite a novelty in action. »
The Wesleyan Spectator recently questioned the veracity of « The Vagabond, » an Australian writer. Instead of accepting this as a compliment to his imaginative powers, he claims £20,000 damages from the paper. Perhaps we shall next hear of Mark Twain demanding a million or two of dollars from the Christian Union for impugning the accuracy of some of the statements in A Tramp Abroad.
A foreman printer in Boston writes to one of the foundries that he has to « fish most of the specimen and sample sheets out of the counting-room waste-basket. » The complaints that reach Typo are of a different kind. The comps can't get a sight of the exchange copy because the man who first sees it puts it in his pocket to read at his leisure! We can't help it—in fact we mean to make the paper more useful and attractive still. So send along your postal notes.
We are in receipt of the American Exporter for March, a first-class general trade paper, printed throughout in English and Spanish. The Exporter, we notice, has the courage to denounce in unmeasured terms the so-called « Retaliation » bill, in connexion with the dispute between the United States and Canada; and clearly shows that if the measure is carried out, it is the States that will pay the penalty in loss of trade.
From Melbourne we have the Australasian Typographical Journal, an old-established and neatly-printed monthly, the recognized organ of the Australian typographical societies.—The direct mail per Rimutaka brings us our first exchange paper from London—The Printer, (the organ of the London Society of Compositors), a neat quarterly.—From London we have also the solid and practical Printing Times. The back volumes of this periodical are reckoned among our typographic treasures.—From New York, the American Lithographer and Printer of 2nd April is to hand. Our readers will see that we have laid this excellent paper under contribution in our column of « Trade Wrinkles. »