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

by Benjamin Drew

Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of morning.

b. Three or more serial terms.

Shakspeare, Butler, and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty, or profound.

The firm of Smith, Longman, Jones, Llewellyn, & Co.

But some printers, while observing the above rule in general, except the names of firms and railroad companies; which, in their publications, appear as follows: {p101}

The firm of Longman, Jones, Llewellyn & Co.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé R. R. Co.

c. Two unconnected serial terms.

He had a keen, ready wit.

OBS. 6. The second example under a (“The inside and outside, the what and the why,”) furnishes an il­lus­tra­tion of the mode of punctuating terms joined in pairs.