SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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Tercentenary Ilandlist of English and Welsh Newspapers. (The Times : Hodder and Stoughton. 21s. net.)—We owe to the Times, and to the patient industry of Mr. Mudditnan, the first really serious attempt at a historical catalogue of the English and Welsh Press. It begins with a " Coranto " of the 2nd December, 1620, printed in English at Amsterdam. In 1621 similar " Corantos " were printed in London. The compiler deals only with journals, copies of which survive and can be seen. The list is divided into two sections, for London and for the provinces. In each section journals are entered under the date of their foundation or that of their earliest known issues. The compiler admits that his lists for the eighteenth century are incomplete for lack of material, but from 1800 onwards the entries are surprisingly numerous. Under the year 1828 we find forty-seven London journals recorded : of these only six survive —the Athenaeum, the Veterinarian, the Record, Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gauge, the Bankers' Circular, and the Spectator. The rate of mortality among newspapers, as this volume reminds us, has always been high.
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