PENS AND TYPES
OR
HINTS AND HELPSFORTHOSE WHO WRITE, PRINT, READ, TEACH,OR LEARN
PUBLISHERS’ ADVERTISEMENT.
Our first edition of “Pens and Types: or Hintsand Helps for those who Write, Print, or Read,” wasespecially prepared for the benefit of persons connectedwith the press. It had, however, a wide circulationamong persons of all professions, and became a referencebook in some notable institutions of learning.
A distinguished lady teacher in a neighboring citywrites us, “I found the book [“Pens and Types”] of thegreatest benefit, both in my work of teaching, and inthe writing I occasionally did for the press. It was aninvaluable aid to those who were trying to train theyoung in habits of correctness and accuracy in the useof their mother tongue. Such a work should never beout of print, and I am glad there is to be another edition.”We might refer to many who have expressedsimilar opinions.
This second edition contains all that was valuable inthe first, besides several new chapters and additions, asset forth in the author’s preface: and on account of itspast reputation and the merits of the added matter, webespeak anew the favor of printers and teachers,—ofboth which professions Mr. Drewmay fairly be {p6}considered a representative; and although he has, in his book,kept his personality out of sight, even using the editorial“we,” his fitness for a w