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WHILE there has been much diversity of - lea opinion with respect to the name of the inbeno of Printing, there can question but that to S S.C ح Peter SCHEFFER of Gernsheim belongs the honor of originating the casting easting of metal leter leters, thus utilizing the art of arts. a 9H he had learned frow the world renowned m ters Guttembergs the art of cutting leterst from Stet not wood. .. ventor (as well as the time of the invention) of Printing, there can be no question but that to PETER SCHEFFER of Gernsheim belongs the honor of originating the casting of metal letters, thus utilizing the art of arts.

He had learned from the world-renowned Guttembergs the art of cutting letters from wood. Not satisfied with this slow tedious mode X tedious mode of making letters, he happily 1 of making letters/ he hit/happily upon the Whit upon the expedient of cutting the chaexperient pient of cutting the characters each in Rom. racters each in a matrix; in this the leta matrix; thus thus many letters might be made Out in the same time that it had formerly took See Hal. w.f. by the cutting method, to make each one.

Faust Faust was so pleased with Schæffers dis- A Gulce copy ters might be cast, and thus many letters Faken might be made in the same time that it covery, that he gave himh is only daugh/ H tør Christina in marriage. Little did either e anticipate the vast triumphs to be achie by this discovery. achieved h h/ had formerly taken, by the cutting method, to make each one. Faust was so pleased with Schæffer's discovery, that he gave him his only daughter Christina in marriage. Little did either anticipate the vast triumphs to be achieved through this discovery. he encircles or underscores the doubtful word or phrase, and writes in the margin-Qr., see copy.

I might perhaps extend these remarks, but it is impossible to mention every supposable correction that can be made, and I think any author, with the above example and remarks and the exercise of his own common sense, should be able to mark a proof intelligibly.

The caption to an article is sometimes run in | from copy, and wishes the copy literally followed, before the first paragraph with a period and short dash, .- (in which case Italics or SMALL CAPITALS are generally used); but usually it is put above the article, in the centre of the line, in capitals, as in the example, or in some appropriate head--letter. The marks above explain themselves, but, although, in my efforts to illustrate as many marks as possible, I have made the example dirtier than I should like to see the proof of any fellow-craftsman, I yet have been unable to show all the marks that are used in correcting proof. Two or three of the above marks need a word of explanation:

If a word or line, from any cause, is crooked, draw a line above and below, and two horizontal, parallel lines in the margin.

If a sentence or more than four words be left out, make a carat where the omission occurs, and on the margin write-Out, see copy.

When the proof-reader doubts the correctness of a word, phrase, or anything else, he encircles or underscores it, and in the margin writes Qr., with or without a suggested correction, encircled.

Should the author adopt the suggestion, he draws a line across only the Qr.; if he rejects it, he crosses also the correction. When the author, not having the copy at hand, suspects a deviation'