San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-26
Gatherings.


Notes from American Economist.
IT is said that the use of gas In IL
braries caused the furnishing. warp
ing and gradual destruction of leather
bindings of books.
On January 2, 1886, Cardinal Richie
lieu founded the Academic Franchise,
one of the earliest institutes of scien-
tlfic and literary culture, and certain
ly the most renowned.
The annual ball of the printers of
Holyoke, Mass, will be given in the
city ON Friday evening, January 30
under the superintendence of the
local Typographical union.
w. l.. CBALoNER, OF Boston, mas
just made bis annual display ofOrigin-
al water colors, the pictures all Of
high merit. They comprise views of
land and sea. bits of scenery from
the forests rocks and sands of
Cape Ann, as well as delightful eket.
ches of meadows and marshes along
the Charles River.
DURING the twelve months follow
ing its inaugural dinner the London
Booksellers' Society appears to have
done considerable toward securing o
general recognition OF q maximum
trade discount of Is per cent. The
fret yearly report has been issued to
members, and the society's work Is
thus far satisfactory.
A SOMEWHAT, chimerical scheme
has been devised In France to form
all native writer's of books into a
great publishing syndicate, which
shall print its own works on every
topic conceivable and hire an agent
at liberal salary to attend to the
binding, advertising and distribution
of the volumes.
A FEW weeks ago copy of the
first edition, of Oliver Goidsmith's
"Vicar of Wakefield" was sold at a
London book auction for $3.50. At
the same sale S64 was paid for the
first edition of Foxes Book OF
Martyrs;" Sc for Charles Dickens
first organized American edition of
mis- Readings" 5000 for the fret
edition of Montaigues" Essays; $3.50
for an autographic presentation copy
of Tenneyson's Widow" and 100 tor
Smiths History OF New York, F"
published in the year 1857.
The sixth International Exhibition
Of Art, which is to continue at Munich
in Bavaria from June to November
of the present year, Will be opened
byPrince Luitpoid, the Regent, the
Kunstler Verein of that city having
management. American designers
intanding to exhibit should confer
with Karl Albert Bauer, secretary
OF the central committee of the cata-
logue, previous to March Is
THERE has lately appeared in Lon.
don q book which constitutes one of
the greatest curiosities Of modern
printing. The volume embraces 500
different translations of the Pater.
noster, each in the topographic
characters peculiar to that language
into which 1t is rendered. Among
the idioms represented are the yaO,
or vernaeular of tribes living near
the tributaries of Lake Nyanza, and
l'aneitenniese, spoken by the inhabi
tants OF the New Hebrides.
HENRY PROVIDE, an English mas
ter printer, has produced genuine
marvel OF bookmaking in the "Oxford
Miniature Bible" This tiny volume,
which is issued in various neat bind
dings, at prices ranging from IS up.
ward, contains 566 pages of delicate
india paper, yet the book is only 4 "a
inches long by 81 inches wide and
aud seven Fights OF an inch thick. 1t
is exquisitely printed, the nontraps-
parant paper rendering the text per.
fectly legibleand easy to read.
THIS year France contributes three
new periodicals to printers journal
ism, one of which, La Sorte, will be
the official organ of the Group Gu
tennurg at Marseilles. The other
two are Partisan ventures, severally
entitled Chronique Typo Biblogra.
phique and LIE Sicle Topographic, the
first issue of the latter having already
appealed with long and turgidly
written account Of the virtues of M.
Hegesipps Moreau. A view of bis neg