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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
An attempt has been made in London to form a complete collection of lithographed Christmas, New-year, and Easter cards. It is estimated that those published to date, mounted in books, would weigh ten tons! At a recent exhibition, held for the benefit of a temperance society, over one ton were shewn in books, besides thousands hanging upon the walls of the room.
Whatever success has attended the use of electro-matrices in the United States, they are not regarded with much favor in Europe. By a recent mail we received a very interesting letter from a leading French typefounder, who, referring to some strikes of an American combination, which he had purchased, writes: « Unfortunately they had been produced by the galvanic process, the results of which are generally bad. »
A gentleman in Dunedin who has written a novel has sent an extraordinary petition to the House. He complains that he is deprived of the adequate reward of his labor by the importation of work done by less highly paid hands, and as he is prepared to publish other books to supply the demand for reading if inducement offers, he modestly asks that Parliament shall impose a protective tax upon all imported literature. This may be intended as a satire on the protectionist agitators, and at the same time as an advertisement of the writer's work. The Petitions Committee did not treat the petition seriously. They reported that they had no recommendation to make.
Sell's admirable Dictionary of the World's Press for 1888 is to hand. It claims to be the largest two-shilling book in the world, and we know of none at the price to approach it. The present issue contains about 1350 large 8vo pages. The first two hundred are occupied by valuable articles original and selected, on the subject of journalism and its various branches, illustrated with numerous portraits of leading pressmen, engravings of some of the chief metropolitan printing offices, &c. Then follows an admirable directory of newspapers in all parts of the world. Nearly half the book is occupied by advertisements, admirably displayed, of newspapers and periodicals of every description. It will be seen by a notice elsewhere that advertisements for the 1889 issue will be received at this office.