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In the reading columns of newspapers but four classes are ordinarily used agate for the small advertisements; agate, nonpareil, and minion for news, miscellany, etc., and minion and brevier for editorials the minion being used for what are called minor editorials, and the brevier for leading articles, as to which it may be said that young editorial writers consider life very real and very earnest until they are promoted from minion to brevier.
Give them money, and Sanders will rebuild and refurnish the Alexandrian Library, Smooch will bid every young painter in America reset his palette and try again, and Brevier Lead will be fool enough to start a newspaper upon his own account, and, while his purse holds out to bleed, will make it a good one.
561 The Dark Sons of Ireland; or, Plotting Under the Shannon Water. By Allan Arnold. 562 Young Karl Kruger; or, The Richest Boy in the Transvaal. By Berton Bertrew. 563 The Phantom Fireman; or, The Mystery of Mark Howland's Life. By Ex-Fire-Chief Warden. 564 Ben Brevier; or, The Romance of a Young Printer. By Allyn Draper. 565 The Signal Service Boys; or, Fighting Above the Clouds. By Gen'l Jas.
"Neu brevier quinto, neu sit productior actu: "So that you see, the Grecians cannot be said to have consumated this Art: writing rather by Entrances than by Acts; and having rather a general indigested notion of a Play, than knowing how and where to bestow the particular graces of it.
I shall suggest a court circular 'The Princess Helen drove out yesterday attended by Gen. Van Dam. 'Her Serene Highness, Princess Helen, honoured the Misses Reid and Bryant last evening at a soiree. leaded brevier every morning on the editorial page. Oh, Nelly, can't I have your left-off looks? A homely girl starves on bread and water, while a pretty one wallows in jam."
Daggett told him their names and sizes nonpareil, brevier, agate, pica, minion and a dozen others which Bobby could not remember but which he found exotic and attractive. Especially was he interested in the poster type, made of wood. One letter was bigger than the whole form of his little press. When he left, Mr. Daggett gave him a small heavy package. "Here you are," said he.
At an endurance test in New York he is reported to have set and distributed 26,000 ems solid brevier in twenty-four hours. He was originally from Detroit. In the spring of 1858 he wandered into the Minnesotian office and applied for work. The Minnesotian was city printer and was very much in need of some one that day to help them out. Mr.
Some idea of the enormous mass of reading-matter it contains may be gathered from the fact that its ordinary issue is fifty-two pages, a little larger than the Pall Mall, but containing five columns to the page and printed in the ordinary small type used in most daily papers, and known to printers as 'brevier. To give an idea of the character of its contents is difficult.
There is a curious little work published called Beethoven's Brevier, made up of those portions of Shakespeare and the classics for which he had a particular regard. Here, Shakespeare is first on the list. There are also many selections from the Greek, and from Schiller, Goethe, Herder and others.
He had broken off in the midst of perpetuating in brevier type the circumstance that Adelia May Simsbury was home from normal school over Sunday to visit her parents, Rufus G. Simsbury and wife, north of town. "I'll go with you," Dave told Julius Farrow. "I can always find a little time for bankers. I never kept one waiting yet, and I won't begin now.
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