. Stamp-collector's magazine. uitewithout information as to the character ofthis stamp, and does not mention whence heobtained it. For our part we should hesitateto accept it as a thing worth cataloguingand collecting, without good guarantees ofits genuineness. Le Timbre-Postefov May, like the numbersimmediately preceding it, contains nothingwhich requires comment. Its contents com-prise another instalment of Dr. Magnuspaper on Envelopes, and also the continua-tion of an article on the Cashmere this latter we shall speak when it is com-pleted. The Continental Philatelic Magazine this
. Stamp-collector's magazine. uitewithout information as to the character ofthis stamp, and does not mention whence heobtained it. For our part we should hesitateto accept it as a thing worth cataloguingand collecting, without good guarantees ofits genuineness. Le Timbre-Postefov May, like the numbersimmediately preceding it, contains nothingwhich requires comment. Its contents com-prise another instalment of Dr. Magnuspaper on Envelopes, and also the continua-tion of an article on the Cashmere this latter we shall speak when it is com-pleted. The Continental Philatelic Magazine thismonth contains very little worthy of note;but the editors mistakes in English seemrather on the increase. Some of these mustproceed from his too great confidence in hisknowledge of our language ; an occasionalreference to a dictionary would set him righton many little matters respecting which heis now in error. The Chronicle Systemis really too ludicrous, and it is unpardonable 88 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. [June 1, to quote Mr. Pemberton as saying, thathe will extinct those vermin ; finally, Suetonius, the historian, is an authoritynew to classical scholar and ordinary readeralike. NEWLY-ISSUED OR (in commercial parlance) ourlast respects, we have pleasure in layingbefore our readers a representation of thenew type for Roumania to which we referred last month,and which forms the mostprominent item among cur-V-%| rent novelties. The designif^B^^^w^ i-s hold in its conception,simple, and, though roughlytreated, effective in themain; the colours are ofthe most brilliant. Thevalues are as follows:bani orange.„ dark blue,red. oval blue, (cinci deci) „ red and blue. The denominations of value are curiositiesin themselves, and give one a peep into theRoumanian dialect. The colours are againthe national ones—red, orange, and blue—and those only. Besides these new values,we are favoured with another edition of thepreceding typ
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