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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[print trade obituaries, briefly noted]

It is proposed by the friends of the late Randolph Caldecott to place a memorial tablet to his memory in the crypt of St. Paul's, beside the monument to George Cruikshank.

Mr Robert Cocks, probably the oldest music publisher in the world, died recently, in his ninetieth year. After serving his apprenticeship, he started in business in London as long ago as 1823. In 1881 he retired from the firm, and was succeeded as senior partner by his son.

Mr Samuel Cousins R.A., the celebrated engraver, died on the 7th May, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. A few years ago, Mr Cousins, who had made a considerable fortune by his works, gave £15,000 to the Royal Academy to form an annuity fund for the benefit of old and unsuccessful artists.

Mr James Grant, author of The Romance of War, The Aide-de-Camp, and other well-known military novels, died on the 5th May at Westbourne Park, after an illness of three months' duration. He was born in Edinburgh, on 1st August, 1822, and spent some of his early years in Newfoundland, whither his father, an officer in the army, had been sent with a detachment of troops, when the son was only ten years old.