The WharCdale Two·Feeder Printing Press. bed plate upon which the forms containing the types and en-Much as has been said and written upon the immense ingravings are placed, and upon which the paper being laid by fiuence of the modern printing press upon modern civilization, hand or by automatic devices, and the whole being brought and trite as anything furt�r upon this topic must necessarily under the platen, t.he latter is forced down upon it with suffi be, we doubt. if all that lecturers,

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... ayists , and poets have cient force to make the ink from the types adhere to the paper. 'said or sung has impressed any just conception of the magni· This class of presses does the best· printing of any, where im tude of this infiuence upon the popular mind. For ourselves, pressions of engravings are to be taken; but its work is ex every time we contemplate the effect of printing upon the tremely slow in comparison to that accomplished by a second manners, morals, and inte_ llect of the age, we fail to Bee any class known as cylinder presEes. ' bounds to it within the Hmits of human thought. For the Cylinder presses use the fiat bed plate for the forms as in press is the chief avenue for the expression of the thought of j the first class described, but the impressions are taken either