Type Specimens.

Watch this column! The Actiengesellschaft für Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach on the Main, notify us that they are sending us a sample parcel of some of their attractive novelties, which we will duly exhibit on receipt.

Messrs Conner's Sons show Harlem, a condensed heavy-faced latin, 18· to 48·; Bodwell, a lighter and thinner face of the same general character, 12· to 48·: the latter with a peculiar logotype « and » of smaller caps rising stepwise from foot to head of line; Pilgrim, 12· to 48·, a latin with alternative letters after the Harper style; Mayflower, a fancy latin, somewhat in the Mother Hubbard style, but lighter, 12· to 48·; Tremont, another handsome fancy latin, 18· to 48·; and Old-style Antique No. 2, a perfectly plain and admirably-cut bold latin, seven sizes, 12· to 48·—a valuable series in any office. None of these styles have lowercase. Fonts of light and heavy Schwabacher are also shown.

The Typographic Advertiser of the Mackellar Company, No. 136, is chiefly occupied with the faces already exhibited, but contains also some useful novelties. The single page of text is set in a wide and very light-faced nonpareil. Newfangle (caps and small caps), three sizes, is an eccentric with good points. The original feature is a crooked extension piece, which joins on to most of the caps. Childs, seven sizes, with lowercase, is a good solid fancy old-style, something in the same line as the popular « De Vinne. » Johnson, six sizes, is another of those ornamented sanserifs of which the « Art Gothic » is one of the earliest examples, but is a little less fanciful than its prototype. A second series of Index Initials, smaller and more condensed than the first, complete the list of novelties in this number.

From Herr Julius Klinkhardt we have several sheets of novelties. Fette Universal is a very heavy script of a composite character. The small letters are of the bold italic style, the caps a « cross » between script and sloping black. Bold terminal flourishes are furnished with each font, and the general effect is very good. The letter is shown in a very complete series of eight sizes, 16· to 72· Moderne Linienschmuck, series 70, 130 characters, 3· to 48·, is, we think, the best, completest and most varied size of line ornaments yet offered to the trade. It is fully supplied with rights and lefts, contains heavy pieces and light, and flourishes, tints gradually softening off, pretty corners and centres; and is in fact a joy for ever to the artistic comp. The effects are striking, without elaboration, the ornaments join up freely with brass-rule, and the effect, in actual use, is that of legitimate decoration, setting off, but not overpowering the text. Another sheet shows a series of 65 original tail-pieces and fancy dashes, some of which are designed to work in combination. They are supplied separately or by the set, and the whole series is repeated in a second size.