FROM PAPER MILL TO PUBLISHING HOUSE. Au American lady who was visiting the Clarendon Press at Oxford was (so the story runs) much impressed by the beauty of the lawn, and she plied the gardener with many a question. The good man, who seems to have been gifted with' some sense of humor, gravely gave her full directions how to lay out a lawn. " And then ?" asked the lady eagerly, noting that the gardener hesitated. " Then, inarm, you have to wait four hundred years !"' The development of the Oxford University has gone on for more than four centuries. The debt which the Oxford Press owes to the Bible is incalcul able, for without the profits arising from the sale of the Sjr'ptures many of the L?arned Press publications (Dr Murray's new English dictionary, for example) could hardly have been undertaken. The Press has repaid that debt to the utmost possible extent bv issuicu the Scriptures in forms that have gained for the Oxford Bible a world-wide reputation. The Press is hetero geneous, aud almost entirely self-contained. With one exception, everything necessary to the turning out of a first-class Oxford Bible is done on the premises, either at the 'Varsity Town or in Loudon. THE OXIOIli) I'APEIi MILL. The paper mill at Wolveroote is some two miles from Oxford, and is a picturesque object, especially familiar to boating men. Mr Joseph Castle, who manages this de partment of the Oxford Press, showed a representative of the ' Daily News' the whole process of paper-making—the rag sorting, boiling, bleaching ; the beating of the pulp into fine fibres (rag and other?) : the glazing of the paper between zinc plate 3 in hand presses, or by the inferior means of calendering by other power, part of which, by-the-bye, is obtained by the use of water gas. To a stranger, the rag-sorting is somewhat overpowering, but a question as to the possible unhealthiness of the occupa tion wa3 politely laughed to scorn so far as Wolvercote was concerned, and certainly the very appearance of die veterau fore woman rendered the query almost super fluous. The famous Oxford In:lia paper is manufactured lure. The secret of the manufacture is only known to three living persons, and many have been the unsuccess ful attempts to imitate. THE TYI'E AM> THE INK. 