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INTRODUCTION 1
By THEODORE L. DE VINNE, of Theodore L.
De Vinne & Company, Printers, New York.

THE AUTHOR 4
By GEORGE W. CABLE, Author of "Grandissimes,"
"The Cavalier," and other books. Resident of
Northampton, Massachusetts.

THE LITERARY AGENT 9
By PAUL R. REYNOLDS, Literary Agent, New York,
representing several English publishing houses and
American authors.

THE LITERARY ADVISER 16
By FRANCIS W. HALSEY, formerly Editor of the
_New York Times Saturday Review of Books_, and
literary adviser for D. Appleton & Company. Now
literary adviser for Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York.

THE MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT 25
By LAWTON L. WALTON, in charge of the
manufacturing department of The Macmillan Company,
Publishers, New York.

THE MAKING OF TYPE 31
By L. BOYD BENTON, Mechanical Manager of the
Jersey City factory of the American Type Founders'
Company.

HAND COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPING 41
By J. STEARNS CUSHING, of J. S. Cushing &
Company, Norwood, Massachusetts, one of the three
concerns forming the Norwood Press.

COMPOSITION BY THE LINOTYPE MACHINE 53
By FREDERICK J. WARBURTON, Treasurer of the
Mergenthaler Linotype Machine Company.

COMPOSITION BY THE MONOTYPE MACHINE 66
By PAUL NATHAN, a member of Wood & Nathan,
New York, selling agents for the Lanston Monotype
Machine.

PROOF-READING 77
By GEORGE L. MILLER, with the Charles Francis
Press, New York.

PAPER MAKING 89
By HERBERT W. MASON, of S. D. Warren & Company,
Paper Makers, Boston, Massachusetts.

PRESSWORK 99
By WALTER J. BERWICK, of Berwick & Smith
Company, Norwood, Massachusetts, one of the three
concerns constituting the N