LITERARY AND PRESS GOSSIP FROM HOME.

Evening Star, Issue 4283, 17 November 1876, Page 4

LITERARY AND PRESS GOSSIP FROM HOME.

K Js rumored that Mr Ihe proprietor, of; thej, ; ‘ Post,’ is to have a baronetcy. It instated that Mr Cooper, who fop many years has acted,! as assistant editor to the ‘ Scotsman/ will succeed the late Mr RussOlLas editor. It is pqt probable that; the; supremacy of the ‘Scotsman * r amongst the Edinburgh 'Pleas’ will b*e Seriously affected by Mr Russell’s Thie rival Edinburgh ' dailibs are by ii 6 means in a healthy condition, so mubh sb that it is intended to abandon ohe in a year or two, should itmpdsitibn not be materially improved during tha,t,time. . . . During the recent action brought lay Mr.Charles Reade against the ‘ Glasgow Herald,’ it transpired that the circulation of the "daily issue of 1 that journal was 40,00.0, and.that the weekly edition'gdld about 42,000 copies. Mr Reade is paid frqm L 4 to Lf a page for Ju&r-CO&tmbutiens to- t-£elgravia,’ and has been offered L’2,000 for a threejrolume novel to appear in that raagaiszine* '

The/Aberdeen, Journal,’ formerly a twopenny weekly, is now published as a penny morning daily. The weekly edition is continued in an enlarged form.

illustrations are gaining popularity! both with the newspaper proprietors; and the public, Mr MortimSjr, the 1 proprietor of the popular ‘ Figaro,’ has, announced the contemplated issue of a j daily illustrated paper in London. The * Illustrated London News ’ has now passed' into the. hands of Mrs Ingramy the widow of the -founder, who takes an, active part in its management.

A new joint stock company has been registered in Londdb Under the title of the Tlaily Express Newspaper Com,papy. The capital is LIOO,OOO in L 5 shares. The Women’s Printing Society, .'Wlfch a capital of L 2,000, in L2 shares, also been registered. The publication of the c Hour’ newsased fen August 10. The fHpur ’ was commenced in March, •18? 8, and during its existence was conducted with much! energy and ability Tjy Ldjitain Hamber, formerly editor of Standard.’ The last issue had .of advertiserhehts and ilojOOO cdpies were-soldi

J of the late Mr James senior partner »pf the e ® a y ie . firm of < that name, has been sworn to under L 20,000. A fire occurred on the lOfcJr August at Grant and Co.’s,- Clerkenwell, one of the, largest printing offices |n Loudon:. 300 workpeople were thrown out °f employment, and property to the amount of over LIOO,OOO destroyed. The ‘ Cork' ‘Constuutional ’ had an advertisement lately For Sale six acres of potatoes, that can speak for th6mßelves! >> ' J.t' is well known that potatoes fiave r ••if $ Anew fact in botany that they have the organ of speech. " ;, 9

''Mr G-. B. Curtis, who has superintended the 1 Echo ’ for seven years, has reared in favor of Mr Passmore Ed: wards, who recently purchased.. -and s now edits his own paper. .-Mr Edwards is also proprietor' of the ‘English Mechanic ’ and the ‘ Building Trades JbiirpaV t.Wp very successful publications. ' . Advertising and. canvassing, for ad- i vertisements effst the principal penny London dailies LI 0,000 a? year each. The ‘Times ’ saves this abiount by ab-, staining from . the above, and* notwith- i standing there aye frequent days on * which the ‘ Times ’ contains over 2,0iD0, advertisements- - ••

f rintmg 1 ; ’ u ’irxoßLrai'al ’ is evidently a believer in judgments. . Itj fi :. “ Recently ; well-known midland counties’ newspaper violently as- ; saulted the ‘ Paper and Printing Trades Journal.’ ~ ! A well-known midland counties’newspaper is deadl’*