lem," 120-127,
---- "Progress," 128-133.
_See also_ Italic; Page.

Typewriting, a form of print, 15.

Typography, primarily a reduction of cost, 115;
school of, proposed by Henry Stevens, 40-43;
tribute typography, 9-13, 136, 137;
a triumph of, 16.
_See also_ Print.

UNITED STATES, annual book publication, 105;
library development since 1875, 104.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, his comic edition of Irving's "Knickerbocker,"
10, 11;
his specimen pages of the "Imitatio Christi," 136.

"VALUE of reading, to the public and to the individual," 28-32.

Values, two great classes, 31, 32.

Vergil, Dante's master, 69;
did not write for children, 68;
his Aeneid, 69;
scanty punctuation in earliest manuscript of, 17.

Verse, _see_ Poetry.

Vision, _see_ Sight.

WARD, ARTEMUS, _pseudonym_, adopts a misprint, 157.

Webster, Daniel, debt to Milton, 110.

Webster, Noah, his "Collegiate Dictionary" on thin paper preferred, 95;
his "Unabridged Dictionary" on large paper, 131.

Wendell, Barrett, on Barlow's "Columbiad," 10.

Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, on "Literary blunders," 156, 157.

Whitman, Walt, on the world's greatest books, 113, 114.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, member of New England group of authors, 75.

Whittingham, Charles, method of book design, 41;
printer, 38.

"Who spoils our new English books?" by Henry Stevens, 38.

Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, a famous misprint concerning,
153, 154.

Wordsworth, Dorothy, on favorite books, 3.

Wordsworth, William, a favorite edition of, 24;
read by old men, 111.

World Almanac, commended, 130, 131.

Writing, _see_ Authorship; Manuscript; Materials.

XENOPHON, contributor to a Bible of humanity, 68;
did not write for children, 68.

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