aker to produce the finest Paper from
any kind of Rags. He has only, therefore, to find such materials as will
make a Paper of a strong texture, and a fine even surface, and by the
Bleaching process he can produce whatever shade of Colour he may desire.

A good supply of clear water is of the greatest importance in Paper
Making. On this account, Paper Mills are built on clear streams.

By the recent improvements in machinery, Paper can now be made with
almost any required degree of rapidity.

The next consideration to the size of the Paper, will be

THE CHOICE OF TYPE.

Type is cast of almost every conceivable variety. The sizes most in use
for Books, are English, Pica, Small Pica, Long Primer, Bourgeois,
Brevier, Nonpareil. The following are specimens of these various
sizes:--

(_English._)

[Illustration: Speaking of the art of Printing, the late Earl Stanhope
observed, "I participate in the encomiums bestowed by all former
eulogists on this transcendant art, which may justly be considered as
the nurse and preserver of every species of knowledge; and while I look]

(_Pica._)

[Illustration: into history for an examination of the benefit which
mankind has already derived from it, I feel equal, or even still more
pleasure in anticipating that which it is yet capable of effecting, when
by being perfectly unfettered all over the globe, it will give rise to,
and promote a system of universal education, and]

(_Small Pica._)

[Illustration: when as a certain consequence of that education, all
societies will direct their strenuous efforts towards bringing into
complete operation, that divine morality which has for its basis this
simple, but sublime maxim--Do unto another that which you would wish
another should do unto you. Printing, from its commencement, has always
had some opponents, actuated from selfish interest, who, in many]

(_Long Primer._)

[Illustration: cases, possessed such influence over their fellow-men, as
to corrupt their judgments and decisions, whenever the question of its
advantages or disadvantages to mankind, came to be agitated. The monks
in particular, were its inveterate opposers; the great majority of them
acting upon the spirit of an avowal made by the Vicar of Croydon, in a
sermon preached by him at St. Paul's Cross, when he declared, "We must
root out printing, or printing will root out us." Happily this superior
art withstood their]

(_Bourgeois._)

[Illustration: hostility