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    i 1805 sation a further taken step . An in 'Arbitrati the direction on Committee of organ- '

    was eight form emp loyed d , consisting , each representing of eight emp associations loyers and more or less recognised by the trade generally .

    times The committee twice a day used ; and to meet -some frequently of its sittings —some are

    o recorded ' clock in as the having morning extended . The to result nearl of y 4 one ; he

    conferences was a scale which has formed the basis of all succeeding ones . It- was modified

    in allowed 1810 ' , when be b the roken journeymen . . Six ' s- society later was ; upyears ,

    re wh duction en the in the l scale oyers , th e comp bine o d sitors to * str k uck e . '

    defeated They were an , d without not l organisation afterwards , comp forme letely d ong

    the ' London , Union of Compositors , ' wjiich was the predecessor of the present London Society

    of Compositors . —Paper and Printing Trades Journal .

    for The the 36 Society th Session of of Arts "the . — Societ Arrangement of Arts s y

    are opening J now CJ address completed will . be On g iven Nove by mber «/ the Duke 20 , the of

    Ab Previous ercorn , to C Christmas . B ., Chairman there will of the be four Council ordi . - nary meetings in addition to the opening one .

    The with programme thhout shows the session that the will be subj of ects unusual dealt interest . roug On November 27 Mr . J . Hall

    Gladstone and , Technical F . R . S ., wi Instruction ll read a paper , in on Elementary ' Scientific

    Amongst Schools * "n t r i / 9 Mr " the m jr . other Mundella -m «~ nil papers I being , for in which the il chair dates i * v .

    h Improvements ave not yet been in Fac fixed ilit , ies are for t R hese ailway — ' Modern Travelling by Mr . George FindlayGeneral Manager

    of ' M the o , dern London G and h North 5 b -Western Mr , . J . S . Railway Keltie ; ' The Relation eograp of the y , Fine y Arts to the Alied ; pp

    Postag Art « , ' e by and Mr Cheap . E . C . Telegrap Robins h ; Communication 'Ocean Penny between England and all parts of the Empire

    M an . d P . A ; and ica ' The , ' by Industrial Mr . J . Menniker Arts of Japan Heaton , ' by ,

    Mr in . the A . Lasenb Cantor y Liberty Lectures . A wil notabl l be e three feature b y ;

    Mr the . dates Thomas being Bolas February , F . O . S . 17 , on , 24 ' , S and tere M otyp arc ing h 3 , . 'if

    Technical . Education . —The Master and Wardens of the Carpenters' Company recently

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    <^ I Fletche moting . rP The . C . ^ Ma ^ I . P ^ . ) er , ^ .-p ^ $ & ut- c ^ # oj ura ^ 4 ^ < ^ 0 ^ f ter his I I , , m ;

    remarks ment namdnlra . did , , expressed A not -vrkraQGia undertake / i surprise aiirnKiaa . the ^ wfek , 1 T ihat . Tvo +- i the + pf . Ti ; tech Y ^ G l / -wTrr |> nical vern % - »^ . I I educationafter the patterns of . -., ih & ]| rench I

    , without Government fee to . the In Ecole France Nccbi , any mail le and might obtain go I I qna

    a Magnus tecnnical stated or general that during education last year . Sir as Phili many || p 1

    Guilds as 613 carpenters of London had Instit come ute up - for to certificates the , Pity and of I I

    proficiency . Mr . Preston , in proposing the I pointed health of out the the lecturers successful at results Carpent of the ^ rs ^ efforts Hall , I I

    from made three by the to six Company hundred , students and mentioned had attended that I I

    each ^ A . lecture t the dinner . of tjie Fishmongers . ' Company I I Professor Armstrong in a speech jsai 4 that I

    owing technical to the education revolution had whi become ch had a come necessity over , I I the condition of trade and manufactures ! He I

    referred to the small number of institutions I and in this thoroug country h as organisation compared with in Germany the extensive , and I I

    laid work stress which on the the City immense Guilds importance had undertaken of . the I I The . — — . —^^ Cryptograph ~— — — — — - ~_~ — — — . —Mr . Weir has — — — just _ — — — - I ^^^

    invented writing . an The ingenious machine is machine somewhat for similar secre ^ to t I I a pocket type-writerund is marked by a key I

    which easily effects , numerous transpositions . I practice It is claimed of only for a few the minutes X 3 rypthgraj (& necessary > h that to a I I

    adopted there sendand is every both receive prospect for a perfectl Government that y safe it will cypher and be genera large ; and ly l I I I

    business JL purposes . CJ H I

    BOOKMAKING IN SPAIN FlFTY YEARS AGO . I will Find --beholcL a land J / which he lurking makes -plac no e of books some and of you the I I

    worst evils which afflict the human race . I Something more than fifty years ago Spain I

    was such a land . Even after a license was I obtained the publication was still a dangerous I

    specu when l the ation book , for was it f printed requentl and y happened partly circu that - I I

    t ate han r d some the grea censors t man discovered , even more a fastidious dubious I

    passag were ^~ »^ " ^^ ^^ r' "^™^^— e four ^^ , ^^^^ and - ^^ ^ m difficulties ~^^ r the _ ^^ ^ b ^^ v ^ t ^^ - ^^ book ^ ^ ^ ^^ m ^^^ , ^ m ^ h ~^ was r ^ m ^^ ^^^ t ^^ h ^^* ere prohibited m ' ^^^ ^^^ f ^^ ^ ore m ^ ^^ v a ^ k ^ . ^ t ^^ w which i ^_ . ^*^^» ^*^ There j ^ ^ b ^^ " ^ ^ m ^^ ^ a ^^ ^ ' an

    author must resolve to , face before , he sat down to prepare his manuscript :

    his 1 manuscr . The probabili ipt wou t ld y thatbef be mutilated ore being —a licensed proba- I I

    bility which amounted almost to a ! certainty . I published 2 . The probabilit some caprice y tha mi t , g after ht forbid the work its sale was . I I

    jk y , m . v- » m of the 3 . i The book certainty the greater -that would the greater be the the susp suecess icion I I

    that would attachto the author . I 4 The certainty ^ that the authorif a Govern- I

    ment , employe * , would be dismiaBed , front this I

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1889, page 1484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111889/page/14/