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DYLAWAD Y WASG AR I "FASNACH A MOESAU. ] (TRAETHA WD). I. DYLANWAD T wasg AR pasxach.— 4. Y Wasg yn ei gwasanaeth gwerthfawr i fasnach rydd yn gyffredinol, SfO., fyc.— Heb fyued i olrhain yn ormodol ar ol pethau fel yma yn y rhifyn diweddaf, ni a frysiwn yn mlaen yn awri sylwi ychydig ar fasutieh y Wasg ynddi ei hun, ar ba un y mae cynifer o filoedd o ddynion yn ym- ddibynu am eu bywioliaeth iddynt hwy a'u teuiuoedd. Fel prawf o hyn, sylwn ar y statistics a gaolyn allan o'r Printers' Regis- ter am 1872 Berlin possesses, at the present time, 150 printing offices, from which issue 280 periodical papers of all kinds; 2j capper-plate offices, 272 litho- graphic offices, 176 paper dealers' establish- ments. 391 booksellers, aod 1,111 book- Th-re are in Denmark 127 printing offices divided in 62 towns; the number of compositors is 540, and of apprentices 233; Printers, 132; appren- tices, 41 Tiie steam presses amount to 108. atii Llie hand presses t > 180. Ac- cording to O. P. Powell and Co., of New Yo' k there are now pùhlishrd, in Ontario, 196 Quebec 64 Nova Scotia, 27 New Eru: s,ick 22; Ne vfoandlar. j, 11; Prince "E'war i'y island, 9; British Columbia, 4; making up a total of 333 British American newspapers. Toe total annual circulation of noffsp ipers printed in the state of New York is 492 770,868 copies, being more than twice the number issued in any other st ate. The next greatest number of issues | is in Pennsylvania, where 233,380,532 copies are annuail y printed. Massachus- setts prints 107,691,953 copies; Illinois, 102 686,204; Ohio, 93,592,448; and Cali- fornia, 45 869,408 newspaper sheets per annnm. A Portuguese .New York paper, O Novo Mundo, gives a tolerable complete staiislioal account of journalism of the Uruted States. At the beginning of 1872, tLeie -ve.e 6,432 periodicals published in America, being an increase of 449 on the last year. Of thfise 507 are dailies, 105 tri-weekly, 110 bi-weekly. 4,750 weekly, XlZ come out once a fortnight, 685 once a month, 4 everv t-io months, and 55 every 3 months. More than 300 of the above publications are in German, 23 in French, 11 m vSpamsh, 1 in Portuguese, 12 in Danish or Swedish, 5 in Dutch, 5 in Italian, 6 in Czech, 3 in Erse, and I in Inquois From 80 to 90 are dedicated to the instructions of Iufaner, over 100 to P"i.'ti<itil agricultural, from 90 to 100 to popular education, and 75 to business. Of the principal dailies of New York, the Herald prints 90,000; the Tribune and Times, 45,000; and the World, 26,000. A little evening paper called the Daily News sells over 100,000 daily, and the bun, a similar morning paper, about the same number. One of the German papers, the Staats Zeitung, prints 55,000; the Tages Nachriohten, about 40,000; and the Devbokrat. 7,500. The most widely ex- tended of the weeklies is Harpers' Weekly, wHJ} sdls about 100,000. Frank Leslie throws off 77,000 of the English edition of his Illustrated Newspaper, and 49,000 of the German; Harper's Bazaar, a journal of &*hiun, prints 90,000; the semi-religious Christian Union, 105,080; the Boston Herald circulates 92,000; the Journal, 30,000, and the Public Ledger, 82,000. Saturday Night, a periodical of short stories, reaches the respectable figure of 220 000; Petersons Ladies Magazines, 140,000; Godey's Ladies Book, 96,000; of the principal American reviews, Harper's Slag izine prints 130,000; the Atlantic Monthly, 35,000; Scribure's Monthly, 55,- 000 and the Galaxy, 35,000, &c., &c." Difynwn a gaalyn eto o'r The Paper and Printing Trades' Journal am Mawrth, 1877 At the beginning of the present year, the total number of periodicals pub- lished in Paris was 836. This includes newspapers of all kinds. The proportion in regard to subjects were-religious, 49 jurisprudence, 66 political and commercial economy, 85 geography.and history, 20; amusement, 74; education, 20; literature, philology, and biography, 52; fine arts, 16; photography, 3; architecture, 9; archaeology, 4; music, 8; the drama, 7 fashions, 68 (3 hair-dressing) technology, 77 medicine and pharmacy, 74 science, 43 military and marine, 22; agriculture, 31 sporting and racing, 16; and miscel- laneous, 17. The daily political papers number 51; the political reviews, 14." Eto, o'r un cyhoeddiad, cawn a ganlyn am y deyrnas hon :—" We learn that there are 1,783 newspapers issued in the United .Kingdom, which are distributed as follows: —London, 460; England, 946; Wales, 50; Scotland, 164; Ireland, 142; and the British Isles, 21. Of daily newspapers, we learn thlt the metropolis has 14 England, 43; Wales, 2; Scotland, 11; Ireland, 16; and the British Isles, 1; making a total of 37; while of the daily evening papers, London has 7; England, 25; but Wales, Scotland, and the British Isles, have not an evening journal to boast of. There now | being no less than 95 publications issued in connection with specific trade. As | curiosities, of periodical literature may be mentioned three magazines containing arti- cles by patients of the asylums for the insane. We also learn that 89 periodicals are devoted to the juvenile portion of the community, nearly every one being illus- trated. Out of 272 illustrated periodicals, 17 contain coloured plates, and 9 contain photographs." Yn y Scottish Typographical Circular am Ragfyr yr 2il, 1872, cawn y daflen a ganlyn:—" At the annual trade meeting in the second week of November, Mr. Murray received the following orders for his various publications :-4,000 of the second volume of The Speaker's Commentary on the Bible; 1,800 Dr. William Smith's Dictionaries of the Bible; 6,200 Mr. Dar- win's new work on the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; 1,000 Earl Stanhopes' Cabinet History of England; 9,500 Mrs. Markham's Histories of Eng- land and France; 1,400 Dean Stanley's works; 12,000 Murray's Student Manuals (or Historical Clas8 Booh J; 4,700 Dr. William Smith's Greek Course; 16, 200 Dr. William Smith's Latin Course 8,000 Mr. Smith's Industrial Biographies and 11,500 Little Arthur's History of EnglandEto, o fewn yr un cyhoeddiad, cawn a ganlyn —" Mr. John Bellows, of Gloucester, prints for the Government the blank forms for electric telegraph messages, and has to issue weekly 300,000 copies-that is, 1,300,000 monthly, and 15,600,000 in the year and the order involves the use of 42 tons of paper in 12 months." Yn Rwsia, yr ydym yn cael fod—"Three hundred and seventy seven different periodicals, in- cluding memoirs and proceedings of learned societies, now published. Of these, 286 are in Russian (109 of them issued at St. Petersburg and 40 at Moscow); 41 in Polish (nearly all in Warsaw); 6 in French; 30 in German 4 in Lettish; 5 in Esthon- ian; 2 in Finish, and 3 in Hebrew. In 1861, there were 25 mission presses in India. The number is still about the same. Dr. Mullins estimated that, during the decade ending in 1861, there had been circulated 1,634,940 copies of the Scrip- tures, and 8,604,033 tracts and books; total, 10,238,793--about 1,000,000 a year. The statistics for the last decades are some- thing as follow, as estimate of the circula- tion during 1870 :-Scriptures, total cop- ies, 140,000; tracts and books, 1,500,000; and Ohristian school books, 360,000." Y mae y brawddegau a ganlyn yn cynwys ffaith fach ddyddorol iawn mewn cysyllt- iad a chylchrediad y cyhoeddiadau :One of the most successful of periodicals is the Gartenlaube, now published about 25 years ago. It started in 1852 with 5,000 sub- scribers, and has now about 400,000. It has 18 printing machines and 9 rolling machines in its service." Wel, tybed fod menywod yn ymwneyd rhywbeth yn gys- ylltiedig &'r gelfyddyd yma ? meddai'r darllenwyr. Oes; ac fel prawf o hyn, dyfynwn a ganlyn o'r Women's Advocate am 1871:—" 741 women and girls are employed in England as compositors; in Firmin-Didots' office, there are more than 250 employed; that, in Sweden, one fifth of the total number of compositors belong to the sex which the trades union consider unfair; and similarey in Denmark and Holland. In Prague and Vienna, women are at work in several offices. The first time they were employed in Germany was 1865, by Payne, of Leipzig, who set up a school for girl apprentices, and still has it. The Lette-Verein in Berlin trains women for printers, of which it employs about 30, and sends out its members to found similar institutions elsewhere." Dyna fraslun o hanes y Wasg i'r darllen- ydd mewn rhai o wledydd y byd. Buasai yn hawdd olrhain llawer yn ychwaneg, pe angen am hyny, ond credwn fod hynyna yn llawn digon i arddangos fod masnach y Wasg ynddi ei hun yn fawr ac eang. Ym- ddengys fod pob gwlad wareiddiedig ar wyneb y ddaear ag argraffwasg o'i mewn yn bresenol, ac yn troi allan lyfrau a newyddiaduron yn iaith y bOblogaeth (fel cawn sylwi eto cyn diwedd ein traethawd): I ond y penaf o'r cwbl ydyw America, fel ag y gwelir wrth y cyfrifiad sydd wedi ei gofnodi yma genym. Onid ydyw y dyfyn- iadau yma yn ddifyr ac addysgiadol i'r darllenydd ? Pwy fedr gyfrif y nifer sydd yn cael bara beunyddiol" tavy offerynol- iaeth yr argraffwasg a'i chysylltiadau ? A phwy fedr symio fyny y lies eyffredinol sydd wedi deilliaw i'r byd, a hyny yn y cyfeiriad masnachol ohoni ? Bellach, ter- fynwn y rhan yma o'n traethawd gyda dweyd mai i'r gelfyddyd hon, yn benaf, yr ydym yn ddyledus am ein gwaredigaeth o anwybodaeth a chyfeiliornad, ac am y rhan fwyaf o'r darganfyddiadau a gwelliadau gwyddonol hyny yn y celfyddydau sydd yn enwogi y eyfnod yn yr hwn yr ydym yn byw. (l'w ba/rhau).

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