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    Annals Of Scottish Printing.* The Subjec...

    learned Scotchmen were dependent almost entirely upon the printing-presses of the

    Continent for the publication of their works . The _ _ _ effo ¦ rt « fe s of the ¦ men who are chronicled

    ^ J M ^ I ^^^ ^^ ^» T ^» » ™ — " ^^ * ~ ~ ~ * ~ — " ~ ^ here however , gradually brought to their counts , the — mean — — — s to disseminate — what its

    i | _ y ^^ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ ^ brains ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ already had the power to create . No - ' where in history has the force and patience of

    the Scotch character come out more strikingly than in these records of the conquest of

    print' dations ing difficulties of a powerful and in press establishing . The authors the foun have

    admirably succeeded in accomplishing the work which they set before themand have

    laid the reader under final tribute , by a most

    exact and copious index .

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    March i , 1890 J-ne ruoiisners uircuiar 233

    Stated A In New A Cablegram Publishing F...

    stated A in New a cablegram Publishing from New Syndicate York . that —It an is

    English syndicate , with a capital of £ 5 , 000 , 000 , for the formation of a school-book trust , is

    announced ; but , unless the combined English capitalists succeed in completing 7 their

    pur-1 A . CJ . chases by May 6 , a number of leading publishing houses here will combine and form an

    American school-book trust . Mr . Appleton , chief of the great < = 7 book house of App 11 . leton &

    ¦ a Co central ., will accept building the is presidency already being , and considered a site for .

    I GJ % / « - » Authors and teachers and proprietors of schools oppose both schemes : the authors

    I because it may equalise the value of their pro-! ductionsand the teachers because it will

    deprive , them of the privilege of preference . The firm of Harper Brothers have declined to

    j join either the English or the proposed American trust . '

    j The Publishing Trade in Edinburgh . — The Standardcommenting upon the changes

    ; passing over , Edinburgh as a literary centre , remarks that one by one the publishers who

    once made it famous . have opened establishments in Londonand , now it appears that

    another of the great , firms which still maintain a literary leaven in the Metropolis of the

    North have reluctantly been compelled to follow the fashion . The Blackswhose name

    , appears on the title-page of the * Encyclopaedia Britannica ' and on the well-known editions of

    I old 01 Scott f ~ * a to to ^ s earrv works _ on on , ill w business hiiRinoHR , it is at at true the th « , tamihar familiar continue house iouh as of « carry

    and on the Chambers North , Bri they dge will . concentrate But , like Blackwood to a large

    extent the active life to their house amid the din will win and smoke of London . Their workshops

    be be in in Edinburgh -Edinburgh , , but but the the chier chief distri distri--It buting - is ~ inevitabl «> vrJlVI centre » k /< V e wil that UMM . VHU l be this VUM- found a should OM . AWI , M . \ in A . be W Soho . . There JlllVt Square V are * MM . . 1 ** 1 _ _

    « till great publishers and some excellent writers after * n Edinburg another h . added But % ffc the 'London JJlVAJIVtVXA publishers 1 to «/ X ^ have their VAA ^^ AA one

    im-^"" V V ** fc' «^» i *¦» - * - *• - *^» -, ^* »•»» print closed , their thoug doors h they in the may North not . have actually

    The The annual . aiuuMi Incorporated meeting HMMWvmmm ^ of vm . Society this villa f society PUVlOVjr of Authors was T » « WO held 11 V . — 1 U

    on the 27 th ult ., at W 01 is 8 Rooms , under the Pr of esidency the Committee of Mr . contained Walter Besant number . The of report useful

    a nin L . _• ts and —( cautions J ) JNot , a to mongst sign which __ . _ ' were the _

    mowing :. any agreement of I ^

    Stated A In New A Cablegram Publishing F...

    which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part , unless an opportunity of proving

    the correctness of the figures is given them . ( 2 ) Not to enter into any correspondence with ' publishers who are not recommended by

    experienced friends or by this society . ( 3 ) Never , on any •/ account whatever , to bind themselves ___ — —

    down to any one firm of publishers . ( 4 ) Not sultation to accept with any proposal the society of royalty . (\ 5 ) f Not without to accept con- 1 j

    any offer of money for MSS . without pre - l viously taking advice of the society . ( 6 ) Not

    to accept any pecuniary risk or responsibility without advice . ( \ 7 - ) / Not / under ordinary /

    circumstances , when a MS . has , been refused ^ by the well-known houses , to pay ± % j small houses — — for

    the production of the work . The Chairman dwelt upon the necessity of looking closel

    <« AAa y into _ . the publishers ^ ' statements * - respecting * . the _ . cost of productionand recommended young

    authors to take the , advice which the society was willing to offerand so avoid the blunders

    and disappointments a , to which the inexperienced were liable . It was proposed to bring

    out a book explaining the different methods of publishing , under the editorship of the Secretary . The volume will probably be read

    about Easter . y Newspaper Statistics . — From * The

    Newspaper — - - — — - Press — - —¦ Directory — — — — - - ^— * 7 for ^^^ ¦ ^ - ^^— ^^ ^^ 1890 p ^^ ^ mm ^ we ^ ^^ . ^^ p - ^^ ascertain that * there are now published in

    the United Kingdom 2 , 234 newspapers , distributed as follows : —

    England—London 478

    Provinces 1 , 290—1 , 768 Wales 89 Scotland 194

    Ireland 160 Isles 23 Of these there

    are—144 Dil ay Papers published in England 6 Ditto Wales

    19 Ditto Scotland 15 Ditto Ireland

    1 Ditto British Isles On reference to the first edition of this useful

    Dictionary for the year 1846 we find the following interesting facts—viz . that in that

    year there were published in the United Kingdom 551 journals ; of these 14 were

    issued daily—viz . 12 in England and 2 in Ireland ; but in 1890 there are now established

    and circulated 2 , 234 papers , of which no less than 185 are issued daily , showing that the

    Press of the country has more than quadrupled during the last forty-four years . The increase

    in daily papers has been still more remarkable - ; w the daily issues standing 185 against

    w-v -- » w ~ v ^ pr — — g m J" ^ — ^ 14 in 1846 . The ^ magazines now in course ^ of publication , including the quarterly Reviews ,

    number 1 , 752 , of which more than 430 are of a of rel Eng igious land character Wesleya ns representing Methodists the Baptists Church

    Independents , , Roman , Catholics , and , other Christian Communities . '

    Retirement of Mr . Alfred Suttowt . — After a connection of over thirty years with

    from the house his , position Mr . Alfred - as Manager Button ha of s just the || Export retired

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/15/