The name Caslon is. certainly known to every printer and to many also not members of the craft. It is the name of the oldest English typefoundry and is also the name of a type face that has been cast in greater quantity, especially of late years, thun any other. The House of Caslon now celebrates the 200th year of its existence, and to mark the event has issued to its friends a brochure, "Two Centuries of Typefounding." A portrait of the first Caslon, 1692-1766, forms the frontispiece, followed at intervals through the book by his successors down to the 70's. The present head of the house is omitted to our regret, but either on grounds of modesty or owing to the foolish tradition that no one is famous till he is dead. Glancing at the specimens of type and engraving scattered throughout the hook one is struck with the grotesque series of type faces that were considered artistic throughout the Victorian era. To-day's most popular fount, known as Caslon Old Style, is a return to a face designed in 1720 by the Caslon, lost for nearly two centuries and then happily resurrected. In these early specimen sheets one also finds the twin brother of "Bodoni," popular fount that has but recently been recast and is in great vogue in America. It is in use through-~ out our paper, most of the news headings and many of the adver-fisements being set almost entirely in Bodoni. As the oldest newspaper in China, and as a printing office that almost exclusively uses Caslon types, we congratulate the oldest type founders in Great Britain on reaching their 20th birth-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.