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TYPES OF AMERICAN FOUNDERS. 107 as soldiers on parade 1 Why should an be round and an L right-angled? Why should types be made to line? The new taste for grotesque Why not give to printed letters some of the dash and swing forms of type, and character of free-hand copying 1 Why not have printed letters that shall be artistic and aesthetic ? These questions ON PRONUNCIATION- [ abbop sucb fantastical faptasrps, sucb 117- Sociable ar?d poipt-deuise corr^papiops; sucb packers of optbo^papby as to speak dout fir?e, Wber? be should say doubt; det uibep be sbould ppopoupcedebt d-e-b-t, pot d-e-t; be clepetb a calf, cauf ; ba!f, bauf ; r?eibboup uocatup peboup; peigb abbpeViated pe : this is ab- bon^ipable (uL)bicb be cOouId call it ipsfpuQitetb 1776 of ips^ 1 ?^- L OIie> s L^OUP Lost. The last novelty. From the foundry of George Brace's Son & Co. have been practically answered by the occasional appearance on book covers, and in the pages of magazines, of eccentric forms of letters which have been reduced to types by many American type-founders. They do not put the standard or approved form of Eoman letter out of fashion.