10 JANUARY 1891, page 15

Books.

THE VENETIAN PRINTING-PRESS.* THE almost simultaneous appearance of Signor Castellani's La Stampa in Venezia and Mr. Horatio Brown's Venetian Printing-Press—each of them a work......

Mrs. Thrile.* "a Lady," Wrote Mrs. Thrale, "once Asked Me

at Streatham Park to lend her a book. ' What sort of book would you like P' said I. An abridgment,' was the unexpected reply ; the last pretty book I had was an abridgment."......