[Our Correspondent, W.M. of the Regent's Park, should read the
following announcement, which supersedes the necessity of printing
his communication. At least, we do not feel ourselves justified in
doing so, without reference to the undernamed German work.]
It is proposed to erect a monument in Mentz, by public subscription
and support of all nations, to Gutenberg, the great inventor of the
art of printing, and to celebrate the immortal discovery in a grand
and becoming style. The erection is to take place in 1836, being the
fourth centenary anniversary of the great achievement, for it is
capable of historic proof that Gutenberg communicated his discovery of
movable letters to some friends at Strasburg in 1436, to which city he
had retired on account of some disturbances in his native place: vide
Schaab's _Geschichte der Erfinding der Buchdruckerkunst_, Mainz,
1831, 3 vols. 8vo. The subscriptions and support, in particular, of
printers, booksellers, authors and literary bodies, is solicited.
Kings and princes, in behalf of the best interests of their subjects
and of civilization, it is hoped, will not be backward to support so
noble a design. The public will be informed, from time to time,
by means of the daily papers and journals, of the progress of the
subscription, for which the smallest sums will be received, and the
names of the donors entered in a book kept by the Corporation
of Mentz, to which all communications are requested to be
addressed.--_Foreign Quarterly Review_.
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