thought best to retain it, it is dotted beneath, and the word stet (let it stand) written in the margin; as in No. 13. The punctuation marks are variously indicated;-the comma and semicolon are noted in the margin with a perpendicular line on the right, as in No. 21; the colon and period have a circle drawn round them, as in the two examples marked No. 5; the apostrophe is placed between two convergent marks like the letter V, as in No. 11; the note of admiration and interrogation, as also the parenthesis, the bracket, and the reference marks, in the same manner as the apostrophe; the hyphen between two perpendicular lines, as in No. 7, and the dash the same as the hyphen. Capital letters are indicated by three horizontal lines drawn beneath them; small capitals, by two horizontal lines; Italic by a single line; with the words Cap., S. Cap., and Ital. written in the margin. When a word is improperly italicised, it should be underscored, and Rom. written against it in the margin. Examples, illustrative of all these cases, will be found under No. 3. A broken line is indicated by a simple stroke of the pen in the margin, drawn either horizontally, or as indicated in No. 16. A broken letter is indicated by a stroke of the pen drawn under it, and a cross in the margin. When a letter from a wrong font, that is, of a different size from the rest, appears in a word, it is to be noted by passing the pen through it, and writing wf. in the margin, as in No. 17. A space which requires to be depressed is to be marked in the margin, by a perpendicular line between two horizontal lines, as in No 14. Different names are given to the various sizes of types, of which the following are most used in book printing. Pica.* Small Pica. Bourgeois. Nonpareil. Agate. Pearl. . Diamond. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. AbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyZ As it may be interesting to know the frequency with which some of the letters occur, it may here be stated that, in the printer's cases, for every hundred of the letter g there are two hundred of the letter x, four hundred of k, eight hundred of b, fifteen hundred of c, four thousand each of 1, n, o, and s, four thousand two hundred and fifty of a, four thousand five hundred of t, and six thousand of the letter e. *The next two sizes of type larger than the above are called English and Great Primer, and all larger than these, Double Pica, two Line Pica, Three Line Pica, Fifteen Line Pica, &c., according as they exceed the Pica in size. 4 Specimens of the Types of the Society's Bibles and Testaments. GREAT PRIMER. [Testament and Psalms in this type.] ENGLISH. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only SMALL PICA. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have LONG PRIMER. MINION. For God so loved the world, that he gave For God sent not his Son into the world to NONPAREIL. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to con For God so loved the world, that he BOURGEOIS. For God so loved the world, that he begotten Son, that whosoey-gave his only begotten Son, that whoso PICA. For God so loved the world. that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should, &c. JOHN iii. 16. ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. BREVIER. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world AGATE. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn PEARL. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the CONSTITUTION OF AN AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. RTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the Bible Society of liary to the American Bible Society. T. 2. The object of the Society shall be to promote the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, "withote or comment," and, in English, those of the commonly received version. T. 3. All persons contributing any sum to its funds shall be members for one year; those con*ing one dollar or more shall receive (if called for within twelve months) a common Bible in rehose contributing fifteen dollars at one time, or twenty dollars at two payments, shall be members fe. RT. 4. All funds, not wanted for circulating the Scriptures within the Society's own limits, shall 1 over annually to the Parent Society, to aid distributions among the destitute in other parts of untry and in foreign lands. . 5. The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary, and urer, whose duties shall be such as their respective titles import. T. 6. The management of the Society shall be intrusted to an Executive Committee of five (or including the Secretary and Treasurer), which shall appoint its own Chairman, and make its By-Laws. RT. 7. It shall be the duty of this Committee to meet frequently on adjournment, or on call of the irman; to keep a good supply of books on hand; to appoint local distributers; to see that collecs, in some way, are made annually in every congregation; and that all funds are forwarded early Parent Society, with a statement as to the portion designed for the payment of books, and that as se donation. RT. 8. There shall be a general meeting of the Society on of each year, when a full rt of their doings shall be presented by the Committee (a copy of which shall be furnished to the ent Society), and when a new election of Officers and Committee shall take place. Should the Sofail of an annual meeting, the same Officers and Committee shall be continued until an election soccur. RT. 9. Any Branch Society, or Bible Committee, formed within the bounds of this Auxiliary, by ing over its funds annually, shall receive Bibles and Testaments at cost prices. ART. 10. No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, except at an annual meeting, and by sent of two-thirds of the members present. Branch Society. In many parts of the country, counties are divided into separate townships, each of which, should it deemed advisable, can form a small Branch Bible Society, in connexion with the County Auxiliary. can adopt a Constitution like the one above, with such alterations as the difference of circumstances suggest. The Branch should collect its moneys annually, and pay them over to the County Auxry some weeks previous to its anniversary. All needed books can be procured through the Auxry, and kept in a convenient depository. Sometimes a single congregation can resolve itself into a nch Bible Society, or appoint a Bible Committee of three, who shall collect and forward money, and eive books through the County Society. Form of a Bequest to the Society. I GIVE and bequeath to the American Bible Society, formed in New York, in the year eighteen hundand sixteen, the sum of , to be applied to the charitable uses and purposes said Society. Meetings of the Board and of the Society. The BOARD OF MANAGERS meet regularly at the Bible Society's House, Astor Place, in the city of w York, on the first Thursday of every month, at half past three o'clock, P. M., and oftener, as busis may require, on adjournment, or in special meeting. The Anniversary Meeting of the Society is held annually, at ten o'clock, in the morning of the sec LXXXIII. TECHNICAL TERMS RELATING TO BOOKS. A book is said to be in Folio when one sheet of paper makes but two leaves, or four pages. When the sheet makes four leaves or eight pages, it is said to be in Quarto form; eight leaves or sixteen pages, in Octavo; twelve leaves or twentyfour pages, Duodecimo; eighteen leaves, Octodecimo. These terms are thus abbreviated: fol. for folio; 4to for quarto; 8vo for octavo; 12mo for duodecimo; 18mo, 24s, 32s, 64s, signify respectively that the sheet is divided into eighteen, twentyfour, &c., leaves. The Title-page is the first page, containing the title; and a picture facing it is called the Frontispiece. Vignette is a French term, used to designate the descriptive or ornamental picture, sometimes placed on the title-page of a book, sometimes at the head of a chapter, &c. The Running-title is the word or sentence at the top of every page, generally printed in capitals or Italic letters. When the page is divided into several parts by a blank space, or a line running from the top to the bottom, each division is called a column; as in bibles, dictionaries, spellingbooks, newspapers, &c. The letters A, B, C, &c., and A2, A3, &c., at the bottom of the page, are marks for directing the book-binder in collecting and folding the sheets. The catch-word is the word at the bottom of the page, on the right hand, which is repeated at the beginning of the next, in order to show that the pages succeed one another in proper order. It is seldom inserted in books recently printed. The Italic words in the Old and New Testaments Fre those which have no corresponding words in the original Hebrew on Greek, but they were added by the translators to complete or explain the sense. 27 LXXXIV. OBITUARY NOTICE. An Obituary Notice is designed to commemorate the vir tues which distinguished an individual recently deceased. Writings of this kind are generally fugitive in their character, and seldom survive the occasion which called them forth. They are not designed to present many of the events of the life of the individual, but rather a general summary of his character. An obituary notice is a kind of writing generally confined to periodical publications, and destitute of the dignity of biography, and the minute detail of memoirs. Model. OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR. MATIGNON. The Rev. Francis A. Matignon, D. D., who died on the 19th of Septem ber, 1818, was born in Paris, November 10th, 1753. Devoted to letters and religion from his earliest youth, his progress was rapid and his piety conspicuous. He attracted the notice of the learned faculty, as he passed through the several grades of classical and theological studies; and, having taken the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, he was ordained a Priest, on Saturday, the 19th of September, 1778, the very day of the month and week, which, forty years after, was to be his last. In the year 1782, he was admitted a licentiate, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the college of the Sorbonne in 1785. At this time he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in the college of Navarre, in which seminary he performed his duties for several years, although his state of health was not good. His talents and piety had recommended him to the notice of a Prelate in great credit, (the Cardinal De Brienne,) who obtained for him the grant of an annuity from the king, Louis the Sixteenth, which was sufficient for all his wants, established him in independence, and took away all anxiety for the future. But the ways of Providence are inscrutable to the wisest and best of the children of men. The revolution, which dethroned his beloved monarch, and stained the altar of his God with the blood of holy men, drove Dr. Matignon an exile from his native shores. He fled to England, where he remained several months, and then returned to France, to prepare for a voyage to the United States. He landed in Baltimore, and was appointed by Bishop Carroll Pastor of the Catholic Church in Boston, at which place he arrived August 20th, 1792. The talents of Dr. Matignon were of the highest order. In him were united a sound understanding, a rich and vigorous imagination, and a logical precision of thought. His learning was extensive, critical, and profound, and all his productions were deeply cast, symmetrically formed, and beauti fully colored. The fathers of the church, and the great divines of every age were his familiar friends. His divinity was not merely speculative, nor |