| Great Primer | I will now tell you something |
| English | about printing. It may be useful to |
| Pica | spend a few lines in giving you an idea of |
| Small Pica | the names which are applied to the different sorts |
| Long Primer | of type employed in the printing of books. This I shall |
| Bourgeois | do by putting against each line of the present paragraph the |
| Brevier | name of the type in which it is printed. I shall not attempt to |
| Minion | explain the origin of these odd terms, but content myself with giving |
| Nonpareil | you a notion of the proportion which one type bears to another; so as to enable |
| Pearl | you, when you become author, to give instructions to your printer as to the type you wish him to use. |
| Condensed | And by way of enlarging your vocabulary of types, I will |
| Full-face | add a few examples of fancy letters, adapted to the title- |
| Antique | PAGES OF BOOKS, SHOW BILLS OF VARIOUS |
| Gothic Condensed | KINDS, BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, AND MANY OTHER |
| Black | purposes. If you will go to Mr. Dickinson’s printing-office, |
| Script | No. 52 Washington Street, Boston, you will see a |
| Extended | GREAT VARIETY |
| Gothic | OF FANCY TYPE; AND YOU WILL |
| Gothic Outline | ALSO SEE HOW THEY ARE SET |
| Tuscan Shade | UP, AND HOW THEY ARE |
| Full-face (Capitals) | PRINTED, WITH WHAT HE CALLS A |
| Phantom | ROTARY PRESS. |
| Condensed (Capitals) | YOU WILL ALSO SEE PRESSES WORKED BY STEAM, AND EN- |
| Full-face Italic | gaged in printing books, newspapers, |
| Extra Condensed | PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, AND MANY |
| Shaded | OTHER THINGS. IF YOU WILL GO TO NO. 66 CONGRESS STREET, |
| Ornamented | YOU WILL FIND WHERE |
| Title Letter | MERRY’S MUSEUM |
| French Shade | IS STEREOTYPED. |
PETER PARLEY’S NEW STORIES.
No. II.
About the Three Sisters.
There were once three little girls, who went to see a balloon. When they got to the place, they saw that it was a great bag of silk, with a netting put over it, and to this netting, a little car was attached.
There were a great many people around the place, anxious to see the balloon rise and sail away in the air. There were several persons very busy in filling the balloon with what is called hydrogen gas, which is a kind of air, and so light that it rises upward and carries the balloon with it.
Pretty soon there was considerable gas in the balloon, and it then began to ascend a little; in a short time it rose more, and, after a few minutes, it seemed in such a hurry to get away that several men were obliged to take hold of the net-work, and restrain it till all was ready.
Now a man by the name of Lauriat, who had made the balloon, was going up with it. When all was prepared, he got into the little car, holding in his lap a cat fastened in a cage, with a thing like an umbrella, attached to it. In a few moments Mr. Lauriat called out, “all right!”—and the men let go of the net-work, and up went the balloon, and up went Mr. Lauriat in the little car hanging beneath it!