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 that of text-matter, and should have nearly equal prominence. Readers are always better pleased when the printer puts these inserts in a type that is easily readable. The small type for inserts is not always an exhibit of the bad taste of the printer. When the publisher has predetermined that the intended book shall come within a specified number of pages, the use of small type may be unavoidable.

When the insert has to be set in a type of smaller body than that of the text, quotation-marks are not needed at the beginning of every paragraph. The change in size of type is enough to show that the insert is not the writing of the author. The too free use of quotation-marks impairs their value in the places where they are actually needed. It is only when the author requires the insert to be set in the type of the text that these quotation-marks are needed. The old method of differentiating the extract from the text was to put double quotationmarks at the beginning of every paragraph. When this treatment did not seem to give distinction enough, double quotes were put before every line, but not to advantage. In a reprinted letter containing many short or broken lines a succession of bristles before every line makes a sorry sight, needless as well as irritating, as will be more clearly seen in the reprint on the next page.