The Westminster Gazette, the new evening Liberal paper, which seems
to us as good as evening papers are, invites com- ment on its colour, a shade of green, which Carlyle would probably have considered a compliment to Robespierre's com- plexion. The managers, however, consider it restful to the eyes, and therefore easy to read. We do not. Green is rest- ful undoubtedly; but if the managers will look at coal-dust on a meadow, they will see that black upon green is not. Readers want to see the letters easily, not the paper. Pink paper blurs the types much less ; but the colour which of all others throws ink into best relief is saffron-yellow. It is abominably ugly; but if the editor of the Westminster Gazette will look at any of the Sanscrit manuscripts on arsenicated paper in the British Museum, he will see that intense yellow throws up even fine black lines. There is another shade, a kind of putty colour, used by Mr. Quaritch in his wonder- fully cheap Arabia edition of the Koran, which makes type quite strangely clear. It may, however, require a special ink.
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