ity they are not used for
emphasis. Display and emphasis it will be remembered are the two
principal uses of the full capital.

Small capitals are used more for variety than for display. They are
commonly used for:

Side heads

Running titles

Catch lines of title pages when particular display is not desired.

They are sometimes used for the first word after a blank line,
especially for the first word of a new chapter.

Long quotations of poetry are often printed with the first word in small
capitals. In this, as in the preceding case, the whole word is printed
in small capitals except the first letter which is a full capital.

Proper names standing at the beginning of a chapter, occasionally even
of a paragraph, are sometimes spelled in capitals or small capitals. If
small capitals are used the initials of the name are put in full
capitals.

Until within a comparatively short time tables of contents were often
set in small capitals. At the same time it was customary to give a
fairly full synopsis of the contents of each chapter under the chapter
head. The result was a very monotonous page, dull, dense, hard to read.
It is much better and now more common to use small caps for the chapter
heads and ordinary text type for abstracts, using dashes or dots to
separate the phrases in the synopsis and beginning each phrase with a
capital.

The following reproduction of a part of a page from the table of
contents of DeVinne's _Modern Methods of Book Composition_ shows this
method of treatment.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I EQUIPMENT 1

Types...Stands...Cases...Case-racks.

II EQUIPMENT 39

Galleys and galley-racks...Compositors' implements
Brass rules and cases for labor-saving rule and leads
Dashes and braces...Leads...Furniture of wood and
of metal...Furniture-racks...Quotations and electrotype
guards.

III COMPOSITION 75

Time-work and piece-work...Customary routine
on book-work...Justification...Spacing and leading
Distribution...Composition by hand and machine
Proper methods of hand work...Recent mannerisms.

IV COMPOSITION OF BOOKS 111

Title-page...Preface matter...Chapter headings an