Matter quoted indirectly, or given only in substance, is not placed within quotation marks.
A quotation within a quotation is inclosed in single marks.
Example:—“His staff and knapsack, her little bonnet and basket, etc., lie beside him. ‘She’ll come to-morrow,’ he says, when it gets dark, and goes sorrowfully home.”
Where a quotation consists of several paragraphs, quotation marks should be used at the beginning of each paragraph, but at the close of the last paragraph only.
Titles of books, essays, newspapers, etc., should be placed within quotation marks, unless in italics or capitals.
Hyphen [-].—The hyphen is used between the parts of certain compound words, and to mark the division of syllables in showing the spelling of words. It is sometimes used in place of the diæresis after a prefix ending in a vowel before a word beginning with a vowel.
Example:—Horse-chestnut, Franco-Prussian, re-edit, de-vi-ate, truth-telling, text-book.
Compound Words.—Rule I.—Compounds made by omitting particles, and used literally, are generally written with a hyphen.
Many such words that coalesce in pronunciation, and have become very familiar, are written continuously.