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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
In an early issue we shall have the pleasure of laying before our readers as a supplement a specimen sheet of a new and beautiful German combination. The founders advise us that they had the sheet in the press at the time of writing.
Mr De Vinne has published an interesting book describing the growth and development of the Roman character at present in use. There is no man living who is better qualified to deal with this subject.
The Jubilee ode by the Poet Laureate is one of the most amazing failures ever perpetrated. It is the blankest of blank verse, and has been mercilessly satirized in Punch. It has been cruelly but aptly described as a bad imitation of Walt Whitman.
The mixed metaphor still brightens the otherwise dull leading columns of some of our contemporaries. The following gem sparkles forth from an article on the land question: « Who are they? Not those who have absorbed and monopolized the best lands of every provincial district, burning their fingers in the process by the self-devouring worm of high interest united with primitive barrenness, but the class of colonists officially stated by Mr Ballance in his Wanganui speech. »
In the State of Wisconsin there is a printer whose example some of onr colonial comps would do well to follow. Having seen favorable notices of Typo in the American press, he sends us a subscription order, « as I subscribe » (to quote his own words) « for about all the trade journals that are printed, and am generally well paid in doing so. » Here, at all events, is one secret of the acknowledged excellence of the work turned out by American printers.
From every point of view, the protection and bonus system is a blunder. Mr Bracken, in the House, having moved that a Government bonus be offered for the production of white printing paper in the Colony, Messrs Coulls, Culling, & Co., papermakers, telegraphed to the Premier that they had no sympathy with the proposal. They add:— « We have no intention of entering on the manufacture of white printing paper, but will confine ourselves to specialties in wrapping, shop and bag papers. We are safe in saying that fine white paper cannot be produced in the Colony at present. We are of opinion that bonuses by the Government were one of the causes of the failure of the late company, as they led to the introduction of imperfect machinery. »