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extracts in a much clearer manner. This method will be found of service in giving a neater appearance to the page, especially when the notes are mainly made up of short citations, for they can be kept apart much better than when they have been set to appear in broad measure.

¹ Note 1 is distinct, for it stands apart in its own column, and does not seem a part of note 2. ² Note 2 is equally distinct; it stands apart from note 1, and cannot be confused with it.

Half measure should not be used for long lines of poetry, nor for the only note on a page when that note makes but two nearly full lines; but three lines will justify the use of half measure.

When long lines of verse are put in a note it is injudicious to break these lines in the middle to accommodate them to the half measure.^[1] It is a better practice to use the broad measure; but when the verse will not be broken, the half measure will be found more acceptable.^[2]

SIDE-NOTES

Side-notes, which add to the expense of composition, are not used as much as they were fifty years ago. The widths oftenest selected are one broad quotation (eight ems of six-point) and two narrow quotations (twelve ems of six-point). Types larger than six-point are seldom selected for explanatory matter in these narrow measures.

1. See notes on page 110.
2. See note on page 52.