Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-16
EDITORS TABLE.
Dictionary of Printing.

We welcome part third Of the "Ameri
can Dictionary Of Printing and Book
| making" which carries the work from
Chinese Printing" to Display Type,
mbraciug IS pages and containing one
| full page plate in colors and fifty por
| traits and smaller engravings 10 the
| text. Leading articles in the number
are. Chinese, printing, color printing,
/ column rules. composition, copy,
copyright. correcting. country news
papers, cryptography, cylinder press,
daily newspapers. depreciation Of mate
| rial, dimensions OF paper and display
type; while there are scores of refer
ances to minor technical matters. There
are twenty-six biographical sketches in
this number, not only those Of Illus
trious practical printers and press
makers, but Of such eminent au-
thorities on photographed and bibliog-
raphical subjects MS Mr. Theodore De
Winnie, Thomas Frognall Dibdin and
that eminent French printer Firmin.
Ddot We have before spoken in terms
Of appreciation of the high technical
and literary character of this work.
that this number sustains the
New York: Howard Lockwood Il Co =,
l26-l2S Duane st Issued as pre-
MUM supplement to the American Book.
maker upon terms deserving the accept
aBce Of every intelligent workman in
printing offices or book binderies. =
October Magazines.
The second instalment of Dickens
Letters to wilkie Collins" appears in The
October number OF Harper's Magazine.
John Hay contributes a poem. Short
stories by Richard Harding Davis and
Hildegarde Hawthorne, "a granddaughter
of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some. char
acteristic buildings in St. Paul and
Minneapolis will be described by Mont
gomery Schuyler in the third chapter of
his 'Gimpses of Western Architecture. .
Angelina W. Wray. whose remarkable
puem-remarkable for girl of eighteen
entitled The Three Sisters" attracted
so much attention in the literary circles
year or more ago, contributes another
poem, interpreted" to the October
aunt Der. William Dean Howelrs novel
cite. AN Imperative Duty" is cou-
eludtd in this number. New York :.
liarper 4 Brothers, August: j Frank
Pierce. IS cts. per plumber
The New England Magazine is a
Lowell number Edward Everett Hale
has paper with him as its subject, and
Edwin d Mead writes on Lowell's
Pioneer Magazine. There Ia also a
poem on Lowell by Sarah X Bolton
A fine portrait of Lowell in his study,
taken little while before his death, is
he froutispiece OF the number Henry
). Nourse contributes an interesting
article on Il he Public Libraries of Mass.
schusetts, containing many fine iilustra
tons. There are two striking poems
in the number--"When Thou Art Far
From Me" by Philip Bourke Marston,
the blind English poet who died few
years ago, and the "Undercurrent," by
c IL, ,randall. Ethel Parton writes
| about Newhuryport, an old historic
town in Massachusetts,, and the head
quarters of American privateera during
the Revolutionary War. which is finely
| illustrated The New England is taking
| high rank as distinctive New Engta
| literary and historic magazine, which
| should not be overlooked in making up
| the magazine lists for the coming year.
| Boston o. 90 per year.