[6] No mark is used here before “and” because it connects two groups of words, each used as a whole, as indicated by marks of quotation.
[7] See page vi.
[8] The use of this comma is wrong, for what follows “sentence” is clearly restrictive.
The following pages contain extracts from a few press notices of the first edition of this book.
WHY WE PUNCTUATE
OR
REASON VS. RULE IN THE USE OF MARKS
(Published anonymously in 1896)
EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION
The well considered contents of “Why We Punctuate” should work a reform in the manner of using points. The author proposes no startling innovations, but approaches his subject from the plane of pure reason, substituting carefully-thought-out principles for the empirical rules, which have too long governed American printing offices, and giving us for the first time a rationale as foundation for the entire system.