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marks. A different method is observed for footnotes, not only by bibliographers, but by modern historians: the name of the author, the title of the book, and the date and description are always set in roman lower-case, without the use of small capitals, italic, or quotation-marks.

• ¹ Sardini, Storia Critiea de Nic. Jenson, Lucca, 1796-98 (3 parts), 8vo, p. 19.
• ² Madden, Lettres d'un Bibliographe, Paris, 1886, 8vo, sixieme serie, p. 116.
• ³ Savage, Hints on Decorative Printing, London, 1882, 4to, chap. ii.

In the texts of magazines and journals, and in all ordinary book-work, the titles of cited books are frequently and needlessly put in roman lower-case between quotation-marks, as in

• "Introduction to the Classics," vol. ii, p. 555.
• "Gentleman's Magazine," 1793, p. 91.

The full names of magazines and newspapers were formerly always set in italic, but they often appear now in roman lower-case quoted.^[1] A recent practice is to select italic for the name (but not always the place) of the paper, as London Times or New

1. Some editors still adhere to the old usage, putting the name of the book or magazine in italic, and reserving quotation-marks for the heading of any article referred to in the publication. This is a nice distinction, but the specification of the article could be made equally clear by using roman lower-case for the name or title, and beginning each important word with a capital letter, as has been the custom for the specification of book titles.