Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Why We Punctuate: Or Reason Versus Rule, in the Use of Marks
The excellent handbook of Mr. Marshall T. Bigelow, published in 1881, is merely a summary of the principal rules of Mr. Wilson's work. Its brief ness greatly limits its value.
The work, entitled Punctuation, of Mr. F. Horace Teall, published in 1897, is also an admirable handbook, but it gives more space to spelling than to punctuation. It gives only four pages, very small ones, to the consideration of the colon; and two of the colon's principal uses, discussed at length herein, are not mentioned.
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