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Proof-Reading (Sizes or styles of type)

sizes or styles of type, the copy should be marked accordingly. Poetry should always be properly indented by the author.

In short, copy should be, in all respects, prepared as it is intended to appear in print, so that the author need see no proof, or if he desire, for any reason, to see proofs, it may be unnecessary for him to make alterations. It should be borne in mind that the making of alterations is charged extra by the compositor, and, in proportion as they are numerous, they entail a heavy extra outlay on the part of the publisher. bentre # CASTING Types.

WHIL there has been much diversity of opinion with respect to the name of the inventorjas well as the time of the invention invention ventorjas It was proposed to give some rules for punctua tion, but to be reasonably exact in giving such rules would take up more space than such a work as this can spare; hence, I will only say that, as the object of punctuation is to make the meaning of the author clear to the reader, commas and other points should only be used where the sense would be obscure without them.

The following example of proof-marking, with the brief remarks appended, may be instructive to authors and others who are called upon to read proof, as well as interesting to the curious:

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