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Typography Old And Njew. The Following I...
strong lines of the old models , but embellished their " mediaevals" with the delicate tapers
and hair ^^ _ lines ^ b » of the . ^» modern ^ H school ^» ^ B . The ^ Bi ^ V ^ B ^ t — ypograp — hy — of the last half-century owes a
great j ^ o deal 1 •/ to this opportune return v to the past ; and the continued favour of the old
styles , I venture to think , is a hopeful sign for the future . '
For newspapers , and for a great deal of bookwork , the mediaeval is no doubt
unavailable . Indeed , under present conditions , the Roman must —^ _ . __ j , of __ necessity ___ »// , form the stap xle
character of typography ; and in its present serviceable forms is likely to hold the field for a good while yet . Jt is the work-a-day
letter 4 1 . shoul The d old mention _ style is the as lettre perh - ap de- s luxe another .
significant tribute to , the genius ^ ^ of the old artists — 7 a recent tendency _ to revive the fashion
which , I have previously described ^ as the Basle sty — oj le — 1 .
I take it as a hopeful sign that the aesthetics of typography are at the present time -- _ being - - o studied - by men of artistic taste and
authority . The result ^ cannot fail to be of benefit . For printingin all its careerhas
followed close in the wak , e of its sister , arts . When they have flourished , we have had our
most beautiful books ; when they have declined , printing has gone down below them . It is a bad day in the history of any art when
it becomes a mere trade , and the " Art which preserves all other Arts " should by all means
be saved from that calamity .
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W , ' i . i i .-, ; :- '* rWM $ mi ii 22 The Publishers' Circular Sept . 15 , 18 90
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¦ I OI Literaky Recreation . —Those who follow literature as a profession have seldom time
for literary recreation . According to the Queries Magazine , of Buffalo , however , a club
of literary people in New York recently spent an evening in a novel and amusing contest . A prize was offered to the member who
should succeed in getting into a single sentence the greatest number of New York publications . The members worked
diligentl JL y , and the prize was secured by a lady , Mrs . Mary E . Bryan , a novelist of some
repute . Mrs . Bryan achieved the remarkable feat of getting into a single sentence a play
upon the names of seventy-nine journals and periodicals . The sentence purports to give an account of a startling message from the Occult
and we reproduce it as a literary curiosity : — , ' Times more dreadful than eye has yet begun to Witness to or Graphic art portrayed are now
at hand , to Judge from a Telegram , that came at a late Hour * yesterday through a mystic Messenger , more swift of Dispatch than any
JS Exnrexs xpreas train train or or Homing TTomina Pigeon Pioeon . , or or even evun Mer Mc . r--cury—the winged Herald of Olympus , —saying that a Tribune of inexorable Pov : er had
decreed from a celestial Forum that the Sun should be eclipsedeach Star should fallthe
World be wrapped , in a Shroud of darkness , , the wind , " that grand e » old Harper i , " be stilled -- ,
carried and Life Post be haste no more throug ; h which Town and awful Country News , has ¦ 1 spread lik Pi i e Wild Fire throug h i fH h h Two Hemi- ,
^ m * * ^^ ^ r ^^ " ^ " ^ ^ F ^*^ ^^ " ^^» "' ^ r —^ T ^ ¦¦ ¦ P ¦ ¦— " r W ^ — ^ * " ~ * - — — ~— ~— » — - - r —~ m — —¦¦ ¦ I —* ~ w ~ IT »* ' »^ P ^^ ^>^^ ^ P * ^ P * ^ ^ F sphere 8 y and though Public Opinion is divided k as to its Truth ; , and it ' is sneered at . by . many , =
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has Critic made - , yet -- many - Chronicle - a man of in the this pro Christian phesied Nation cata
strophe in his Journal during a Leisure t ~ ' - Hour »¦ v > c * vic »~ - ' and den it is upon of this Saturday that Night , in these
GoDays a Century marks the highest Epoch of civilisationthe chief of
To rrf- wn Top m ics , silencing -i all "I ! . TVd / n- , t ^ ifs » « of . _ Our Society gossi v pwhile it is held under excited 1 iw
, Review — — — - — - - - b ^_ y every —w . — 17 , Citizen — at Church — -- — — - ^ . — —_ at - - ^ . ^^ Home ^_ ^^^ t ¦ ^^ ¦ ^^ and ¦ Abroadat the Saloonthe Bazaarthe ^ Theatre ^^ " ^ wi / , , , 7 ' v
and on the Street Railway or the Produce Exchange - over - his Winehis counter —— or his
Ledger Visitor Ktsttor jj , j , , or in in with nis his Study frtuay a Fireside , , beins bein , Companion g discussed aiscussed - - or Friendl alike alika •* - *» . 11 bhv XO y
sober member Churchraan , of the Sporting and Evangelist Worldor — and of — the the A gay y
and Navy ; by the I Advocate , j of , 7 orthodox v «» faith r rmy > rvi ^ and — the — Independent — ___ . __ thinker _ __ — . _ — ; — the — — Metropn _^ . « i ^ -s ^ v W \ S ¦ m ^ p -
Ang litan ler — - that and — — Mirror A — griculturist - _ - of Fashion beside - — — — — — — and the — . — the Fo - » - rest w - simp ^ ^^ ^ j and w J le w \ Sv
Stream , by the Machinist , the Builder and Breweras by the Banker and the Stockholder -- > -- ^ » ;
by the , Cosmopolitan ^ for ever taking an Outing _ . , or the Rura j l New Yorker - content with Cottag ir ir ¦ h e 0
and Farm — ; by the non-advertising , ^ — - — — — — - — Merchant - ' —^ ^^ r ^^ - ^ «* _^ who failsby the Commercial Advertiser who
succeeds ; , by the old and Young People , eve n The Little Ones—in shortby every Progressive
Ameritan who is Wide Awake , % j to the j interests •/
of human Fraternity .
Ioi The Illustrating Of Books. —What A F...
IOI The Illustrating of Books . —What a fine thing it would be if author and artist
could always meet in consultation over each separate design ! But that seems impracticable . In the first placethey are sure to live as far
from each other as , possible . And then , which is to wait on the other ? If authors would learn a little how i to draw themselves f b they
~— ~ - ~ —— — ~ ^^ ^~ ^ — — ¦ ^» ^» ^^™ ^^^ ™ ¦ ^ . p- — " ^^ r ^^> ¦^ ' ^ . ^ . ^ ^^ v' ^ pr » » ¦¦¦ ^^^ . ^ dgv . ¦¦• ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦• ¦ - ^^ ^ > w ^ ppf r ^ m" ^ — - ~ m would not put such difficulties in the artist ' s way , and expect the impossible from him ,
such as that he should draw three sides of a house in one picture , or show the heroine's
lover iull full race face vanishing . , tparRt tearstained . ainftH in the , as a middle « she sVm gazes aa of ^ fia the on on back the the - ground . It would be a great boon if they
work warlc could , that t . ha however . f . the fViA artist n . roug rfiflf mig mitrli hly , ht f ill have Ti ustrate jivp ! some anmft their idea iflea own of or I i
the characters , and scenes as these present , | | themselves to him who imagined them first .
ing Thackeray , illustrated , who had Vanity a genuine Fair ; ' g an ift d of here sketch and
a there clear he has tion been of the so t successful he had as in his to convey mind . His ^ drawing and execution ype do not come up to , the standard VtWAlVtUIA of to-daybut we know what he
Lord meant V * * . V K * Steyne his peop V * VTJi , le \ JKJ the to * be Al J Sedleys , * like H _ f 14 V . TT E , -awdon the M . X AJiV-- ' » T Osbornes Crawley wr » -w- — , , D Uoobbin bbm . Joeck Bftnkv y . Amelia Amfilia . — —wo we know know them them an all . . , :
And I can , conceive , no more delihtful task for an illustrator ( to whom by virtue g of native j talent ing presents , good training difficulties , and l ) than prac to tice illustrate , draw- |
no the what Ull « greatest glCOi I , and l / OOD most novel UUVC of 1 of \ JL the our WUJL peop century WUUU le I J know —founding * v , think
himself scrupulously on the author ' s own designs of illustrating . When ' the Esmond honour ' ( the devolved next upon greatest me
\ JX Xi . X \ AO \ JXa , VLM . lU lli MMO \ Jll \ X IUJ . 1 V 7 "VAV q- sess novel sketches ?) , what , however would I sli not ght have , of g Thackeray iven to pos fl -
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1890, page 1122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091890/page/14/
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