Pens and Types / or Hints and Helps for Those who Write, Print, Read, Teach, or Learn

PENS AND TYPES OR HINTS AND HELPS FOR THOSE WHO WRITE, PRINT, READ, TEACH, OR LEARN
A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION BY BENJAMIN DREW
“A portion to Seven, and also to Eight”
BOSTON 1889 LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET NEXT “OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE” NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM 718 AND 720 BROADWAY
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, B Y B ENJAMIN D REW , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
C. J. PETERS & SON, T YPOGRAPHERS AND E LECTROTYPERS, 145 H IGH S TREET, B OSTON.
To the Memory OF GEORGE WASHINGTON HOSMER, D.D., MY EARLY FRIEND AND INSTRUCTOR, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
Our first edition of “Pens and Types: or Hints and Helps for those who Write, Print, or Read,” was especially prepared for the benefit of persons connected with the press. It had, however, a wide circulation among persons of all professions, and became a reference book in some notable institutions of learning.
This second edition contains all that was valuable in the first, besides several new chapters and additions, as set forth in the author’s preface: and on account of its past reputation and the merits of the added matter, we bespeak anew the favor of printers and teachers,—of both which professions Mr. Drew may 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 work of this kind will, we think, be made apparent by a brief sketch of his career.
After a school life in which he paid much attention to Latin and Greek classics, he learned the trade of printer. Soon after attaining his majority, he was employed as teacher of a public school in his native town, Plymouth, Mass., whence he was summoned to Boston, to take three months’ charge of the Bowdoin School, during the illness and consequent absence of Mr. James Robinson. Subsequently he became master in the Otis School, which position he occupied during the whole period of its continuance.