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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

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The Parthenon is the title of a new quarto literary monthly, published in Sydney.

Sheet almanacs reach us from the Southland Times and the Manawatu Daily Times.

Mr W. Freeman Kitchen, Dunedin, has been appointed exhibition correspondent for The Times.

Mr James Gordon Bennett's London daily is not a success, and has already more than a score of libel cases—some very serious—to to defend.

Land and Sea, Dunedin, is dead. It was a weekly miscellany, chiefly of borrowed matter. Many of its cartoons were « traced » from Punch and other comic journals.

We have received the Hawke's Bay Almanac for 1890, a well-compiled annual, published by Messrs Dinwiddie, Walker & Co., Napier; and the neatly printed Star book almanac, issued by Innes & Co., Hawera.

The editor of the Dunstan Times has just wished his readers « the compliments of the season » for the twenty-fifth time. The paper has been established twenty-eight years. We hope to return his greeting on the occasion of his editorial jubilee.

A continental exchange came out lately with a full-page advertisement, the border of which is a Greek design composed from a single-character nonpareil border after one of the patterns shown in our article on p. 21 of the present volume.

A railway station-master in the North Island has had to be sent to a lunatic asylum for monomania. He is sane on all points except the railway regulations, his efforts to master the tariff having unhinged his mind. The Wellington Press says the reason why the other station-masters retain their reason is because they are wise enough not to attempt to master the regulations.

1840–1890.
A full half-century the years have spanned
Since first our Pilgrim Fathers, wise and free,
Planted a Nation in an Unknown Land,
And now New-Zealand holds her Jubilee.
Fair Isles!—encompassed by the Southern Sea—
In whose clear heavens the English skylark sings—
With flocks and herds on plain and fertile lea,
With mountains forest-clad, and water-springs:
Within thy happy homes contentment shines—
True wealth surpassing all thy golden mines.
Changes have passed upon thee, pleasant land,
For good and ill: yet now with hearty cheer,
In hope and faith thy children take their stand,
And one and all await a good New-Year.

The first number of Te Korimako Hou has reached us. It is published at Opotiki by Mr B. Henry, and edited by the Rev. B. Maunsell. It is a demy quarto of eight pages, three columns to the page. With the exception of a few advertisements, it is printed entirely in Maori.

Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, on leaving the Waipawa Mail, was the recipient of four presents: one—an albert with masonic jewel—from the district school, he having held the office of secretary to the committee; two purses, from residents in the town and district; and the fourth, an illuminated address in handsome frame, from the staff of the Mail.

Two of the Australian Chief Justices are ex-editors. The Hon. George Higginbotham of Lincoln's-Inn was a reporter on the Morning Chronicle in 1849, emigrated to Victoria in 1854, became the editor of the Melbourne Argus, and is now Chief Justice of the colony. Sir Charles Lilley, the Queensland Chief Justice, was editor and half-owner of the Brisbane Courier, the leading journal of that colony. He has recently been credited with the epigrammatic remark that « A newspaper can say anything it likes without getting inside the law—if it only knows how. »

The Akaroa Mail is adopting a practice which might be followed with advantage elsewhere. Under the heading of « The Story of the Bays, » it is publishing a series of very interesting articles, giving particulars of the first colonists and their work—in fact, the early history of the district, with authenticated facts and precise dates. Now that the pioneer settlers are so fast disappearing, is the time to place such facts on record; it is not at present possible to do so in book form; but in newspaper files the information is accessible to those who seek it, and in future years it will be highly valued.

It is difficult to form anything like a true estimate of contemporary literature, especially when it is popular. A few years hence, probably people will wonder how the forgotten song « Laddie » —the most inane production of this generation—should have had the largest sale of any ballad published during the century; or how the trashy « Hansom Cab » should ever have brought in shillings to the extent of a third of a million. The tendency to depreciate good work of the past and magnify present productions, is curiously illustrated in a letter by the clever home correspondent of the Dunedin Star, Immediately after describing the late Eliza Cook's songs as « weakly and sentimental, » he goes on to characterize Robert Martin's « Bally-hooley » and Killaloe » as « immortal lyrics. » Clever they are, and deservedly popular, but— « immortal » ! Prodigious!