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    ANNALS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING.* The subjec...

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    Mr. Marston And Mr. Stanley At Cairo.

    new but fields if we of succeed literary in deli guiding hts a our good readers work will to

    have Before been dismissing accomplished the . subject g in these rough I

    notes , poetry of New Zealand claims attention . Intrinsically and in inspiration it differs

    All considerabl , or — nearl — — y y m fro all - ^~ — ¦¦— m —¦ , h of th - — ^^ at the ^^ ^^ ^^ - of ^^ products W ^^ the ^^ ^^^^ sister ^^ ^^ of ^^ ^^ colonies the ^^ ^^ ^^ Aus- .

    tralian muse relates to human experiences in a new countryto its fauna and florato its ;

    sunny skies and , shimmering seas . Th , ere are not many places in Australia where landscape

    may be said to rise to the sublime . New Zealand is very different in this respectfor

    there is hardly a district that is not ennobled , by the grandest and most majestic of natural

    level scenery of . the Even Canterbury the far- «/ reaching p *— lains , becomes but fertile im- , j |

    posing when one looks at the distant range of j snow-capped mountains whichrising sierra- ]

    I j like * noble , stand scenery x X like makes an impregn noble able men , rampart ' is a common . That ;

    that saying could . He say would it had , indeed not made , have nobl a cold e poetry heart

    among the colonists . Another incitement was to be found in a landj ' With Where its faiths people and primaeval its fables is vanishing and s fast of ,

    | past . ' , way Yes , old Maori-land was full of the most

    poetical of traditions and quaint legends , I handed down from times long before the

    redcoated * ^ K pakehas ^ ^ had ^ ^ b to be ^ m . foug _ ht ^ K . The ^ Bt ^ k ^ B ^ folk ^ h ^ ^ k have succumbedbut the folk-lore still lives , - - — - ,

    and tells the poet to speak . The majestic mountainstooand the riverslakesand

    farv stretching , fores , ts of noble trees , , urge , him to sing of their glories . Minstrels have begun

    their lays with a veiy lively cadence . Alfred i Domett stands in front of all . He seems to 1 have been saturated with Maori patriotism .

    His warlike epics are as clear and strong as the blasts of a trumpet sounding — —¦ the charge ; while

    his love songs have - a tenderl ^ y y melodious ^ j i expression — _ _ . _ ... _ — well — _ suited _ — _ _ to _ _ the — _ . lustrous — __ -eyed ^ ,

    fervid damsels of the sunny south . Alexander W . Bathgate and Ebenezer Sturry Hay have

    also written verses on New Zealand life and Bcenerywhich are well worthy of preservation .

    Very excellent , selections from the works of most of the Australasian poets appear in the

    students volumes edited will find by Mr them . Doug valuable las Sladen guides , and to 1

    I more Prose extended does not reading setm . to have risen to great few representative height in Australasia booksbut . in We fiction know there any of

    , are Natural signs Life of a ' new attracted progress attention . Years and ago latel * His , y

    thing we hav of e had its kind a novel namel which ' outstri Robbery ps every under

    -Arms . ' Should many , books y , with such a Af marked ltViMMM flfc ^ w ^^ r ^* V > degree ^*^ ^^^ f % ^^ ^^ ^^ of ^^ ^^ truthfulness ^ i'tfk Ml ^ v fl ^^ m ^ B - ^ a * ww ^^ . ^ ^ i ^ w ¦ ^ to ^ v ^ v — nature ¦ " ~ ~ ' ,

    intensified from our kin by beyond irresistible the seas dramatic , they force need , come have

    no doubt that their literature , in prose and verse natural , y position outhful among though the it institutions be , will take of the a

    great country of the future William WILLIAM . Stephen STEPHEN ..

    J - - : . , ===G 232 The Publishers' Cir...

    j - - : . , === g 232 The Publishers' Circular March i , i 890

    Annals Of Scottish Printing.* The Subjec...

    ANNALS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING . * The subject of this volumewhich is a

    technical onewith little sentiment , or romance I about itnecessaril ___ , y appeals to a limited '

    circle — -- — — , and - , yet the authors ^ A have i done their — work * ' ^/\ j » . \ with -- a patience _— ___ __^ , discretion _ , and comp . _ . leteness . ^ _ ^ , _ ^ ^ Xi ^* J

    of which - — ^ printing — — is hi ^^ g in hly Scotland gratifying had . The precarious s early his - con — tory — » A - ,

    ditions . As early as the first years of the i sixteenth -- centuryhowever ¦ there were men !

    north _ _— — — — — — of — - - the - — | — Tweed — a , j of such , calibre as Walter — —— — ^^ *^ I Chepman ¦ - ^^~ ^^ ^^ - ^ _ ' ^ ~ — — ^— and — — ¦ — M — y w llar ____ , who . b _ y indomitable - * w- ^ w V-W "" - ^ ^^ ^ g-

    da perseverance ff tions of tha laid ¦ t press deep bi and which v h strong has I r- the so h -r much d foun - !

    contributed ^^^^ . ^^^ V ^^ ^^ t ^*^ ^^ * ^^ \ ^^ i — I— ^^* 1 to i ^ IT ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ Scotland ft ^^ ^ a 1 ^^ T ^^ v ^^ 11 's ^^^ greatness ^^^—~ — - ^ - ^ I — ^^ ^ . ^^ At 4 i ^^ ^ this , » ^^ i ¦ periodas well as laterthe art of printing ; l

    , , hel and ped J- the by •/ spread royal % J favour of literature . James were IV . greatl gave O y ! i

    his friendship to Chepman , and this con- i | tributed in no small degree to the success \

    which the latter obtained in his early struggles j to introduce — printing from the Continenti

    forces But while , it is Chepman to Andro acted w My as llar director that belongs of the , ; j j

    the honour of being Scotland ' s first printer . ! The authors pursue their inquiry right '

    through the sixteenth century , tracing the \ various names and history of successive

    printers , examining with marvellous detail the existing O specimens A of their art , pointing i C 3 out ; '

    exp the laining defect minutel of each y copy the slow of their development work , and of , j '

    there the typograp is in this hic volume art during that that which period will interest . But j j others besides critics in the art of printing . ;

    Throughout the work is scattered much i va V ^ f ^ V luable Um ^ k *^ P ^ h # ^ V W ^^^ ^^ ^^ * information ^ ^^ ... ^^ ^^ .. % ^^ ^ k . V ^^^^ r ^^ ^ 1 * ^>^ ^^ ^^^ concerning ^^ ~ ~ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ m ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^— a ^^^ v contemporary ^^^ ^ ^^^ ¦ - ^ ~— h ^^ ^^ ^

    history . Kings , queens , peers , and commoners i all find a place in the rise of the press ; |;

    and volumes the methods inted b th y which cen quaint turies and curious found j pr ago ;

    their way into the British Museum , the ( Cambrid ClainViriHcr Bodleian , the TTuivp Universit Societ . rait . v y an n . of n d d Ant into int . n iquaries manv , other other the ! \

    libraries ge of castle an y d , college , li many ght up the , book Wt , ^ ^^ r - \* r d »«^ with v * « v «« « m ^ a ^ v g f ^ h ^ l ^ ow ^^ of ^^ ^^ d ^^ ' ^ eep ^^ ^^ V ^^ in « b >^ b ^» terest ^ r ^ i ^ « .. ^ i ^ w *^ - ^ . ^ The j r

    philologist will find something here to interest him and , a for history this is of at words once . a We history are of taken printing back

    a long way in our study of language to meet with such words as sekwhich means a measure

    of weight weight wool tor for wei wood wood ghing or of about 7 7 , lbs lbs 680 . . ; : oncost oiuios lbs . ; tls is nallis . wnicn which , u

    means expensen ; hup , a heap or lot ; , tvdlux , j velvet The ordinary and mynryu reader , which into si whose gnifies hands lessening this

    for * volume . VJL the U * l « 7 fal progress | U Ugl l s wil COO l su Jl in l r book e UUUn ly lear .- - LM printing n lIIl a l esso lllg during U n . Uli of g rati £ three vw tude » - <~

    centuries . The specimens of the black-letter . ; type with which printing was begun , an various various d the

    subjects reproductions reproductions were ot of ori the the ginal woodcuts woodcuts ly illustrated bv by wjnch which , should be Bumcient sufficient to to induce induca evftrv stud nfiidnnt ent to to give crive m hia »

    tribute of praise to every the memory of those to whose resolute efforts we owe our well-printed

    and In eaeil the y-read beginning books of to-day the . sixteenth century

    Art in Annals 1 C 07 to of the / Scottis Beginning h Printing of , the from Seventeenth the Introduction Century of . th « y ' uximonu

    ttooert Uictaon , uiuj . » . B . an < l John Fniup . ^» - » bridge : Maomlllan & Bowes . 1890 . J

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/14/