22 E. R. McDix on 



Then as the end of the century drew near these small 

 journalistic sheets increased in number and variety. One called 

 " The Flying Post, or the Post Master," was printed by C. Carter 

 at the Post Office Coffee House in Fishamble Street in 1699 and 

 1700. It is a single sheet, folio, printed on both sides. Then a 

 Dublin edition of the London Gazette was also printed by Carter 

 in 1700. It is also alleged that " Pue's Occurrences" first 

 appeared in 1700, but I do not think so. 



These small beginnings of the modern newspaper press are of 

 very great interest and worthy of careful study and examination. 



There were also printed in Dublin in numbers at regular 

 intervals "Votes of the House of Commons," beginning in Sep- 

 tember, 1698. There are 80 numbers in the Library at the 

 British Museum. I hardly think, however, that this publication 

 can be correctly classed with journals. 



As the following century, the 18th, progressed newspapers 

 developed and were adapted to fulfil the greater requirements of 

 the public for news, etc., but such development was slow, and 

 even in the time of Swift, and very much later, too, in the 18th 

 century, pamphlets were made use of by parties on different 

 political sides to circulate their views and to publish their attacks 

 upon one another. 



Before leaving the 17th century I would refer to one other 

 matter. 



The printing in languages other than English necessitated 

 using types other than Eoman letter, and in the 17th century in 

 Dublin there were used Greek, Hebrew, Old Syriac, Armenian 

 and Arabic types, besides the Irish type. 



The earliest specimen of Greek type appeared in 1622 and 

 the following year, but this early Greek type is hard to read to 

 those accustomed to modern Greek type. There was a large 

 fount used for the text and small type for the notes. 



Hebrew characters first appear in 1624 in one of Usher's 

 works. The type is small and used in the marginal notes to the 

 text. 



