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 of lines. The old fashion of spacing with two three-to-em spaces, and even with em quadrats, is not tolerated in books, although it is an oddity which seems to be favored by modern advertisers. To avoid the fault of over-wide spacing divisions which were once prohibited are now allowed.

These divisions are preferred by Horace Hart of the University Press, Oxford, England:


 * abun-dance
 * corre-spon-dence
 * depen-dent
 * dimin-ish
 * estab-lish-ment
 * impor-tance
 * inter-est
 * minis-ter
 * pun-ish
 * respon-dent

He disapproves of these divisions:


 * gene-ration
 * exal-tation
 * imagi-nation
 * obser-vation
 * origi-nally
 * star-vation

The principle is that the part of the word left at the end of the first line should suggest the part to be carried over to the next line. He advises that the word "happiness be divided happi-ness, not hap-piness." He prefers Roman-ism, Puritan-ism, Catholi-cism, criti-cism, fanati-cism, tautolo-gism, witti-cism, philo-sophy, atmo-sphere, tele-scope, tele-phone, micro-scope; but he admits that some of the divisions specified in this paragraph, and