REMARKS.
1. Punctuation marks are sometimes required, when the brackets are used. The same remarks apply to the brackets that apply to parenthetical marks.
2. In reporting speeches, brackets are used, when words are introduced by the reporter which do not form a part of the speech; as,—
“We would have our Union to be a union of hearts, and we would have our Constitution obeyed, not merely because of force that compels obedience, but obeyed because the people love the principles of the Constitution [long continued applause], and to-day, if I am called to the work to which Abraham Lincoln was called sixteen years ago, it is under brighter skies and more favorable auspices. [Applause.] I do hope, I do fervently believe, that, by the aid of divine Providence, we may do something in this day of peace, by works of peace, towards re-establishing, in the hearts of our countrymen, a real, a hearty attachment to the Constitution as it is, and to the Union as it is. [Long continued applause].”—President Hayes.—Chicago Tribune.
3. Parenthetical marks are frequently used instead of brackets.
QUOTATION MARKS.
Rule I. Direct Quotation.—When the exact words of another are given, they should be inclosed in quotation marks.
EXAMPLES.
“He had the longest tongue and the shortest temper of any man, high or low, I ever met with.”—Wilkie Collins.