The initial is badly chosen when it leaves a high gap of white, as appears in the following exhibit.
HEINRICH HEINE justifies his gay trifling in these words: Life is in reality so terribly serious that it would be insupportable without a union of the pathetic and the comic, as our poets well know.
SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS
Summaries of chapters under the regular chapter heading are sometimes set in long paragraphs of small capitals of the text type, but they are not so readable as they would be in lower-case letters on a smaller body. The dull monotony of compact characters without letters ascending above or descending below the line becomes wearisome when protracted in three or more lines. The density of the small capital may be made less unpleasing by hair-spacing and wide leading, but these are expedients not practicable in solid and compact composition. The paragraph of many lines of small capitals on a small body can be made more readable by the occasional use of large capitals at the beginning of important words, but the change so made is seldom pleasing. Tables of contents, often set as two or more pages of small capitals, may be wide leaded and have full capitals for important words, when it can be done, to their great improvement. The size selected should be one or
