Times Printing Number (The)--Reprinted from the 40,000 issue of _The Times_, Tuesday, September _10_th, _1912. Times Office, 1913. 6s._ Articles _Stereotyping_; _Composition_; _Typography_. QUESTIONS. _1._ Name three methods of moulding plates for printing purposes. _2._ Give six essential features of good type. _3._ What is the best style of type face for book work? State your reasons for your preference. _4._ Give an account of the use of the matrix in type-founding. _5._ Define the following terms:--stereotyping; ligature; sans serif; forme; quoins; shorts; point system; italics; large paper; black letter. _Lesson 4._ PAPER. The student should know how to distinguish the difference between papyrus, parchment, vellum and paper. The article “paper” in the Encyclopædia Britannica will be quite sufficient for the history of its use and introduction into Europe. English paper-making dates from the fifteenth century. The manufacture of paper must be closely followed, first, the materials, then, their reduction to the pulp, the conversion of the pulp into paper, and finally the finishing. How to tell the difference between hand-made and machine made paper, by wire marks, deckle edge, colour, tear and rougher side. The effect of the “dandy roll” on “wove” and “laid” paper. Chain lines. Essentials of first class manufacture. The merits and defects of different kinds of paper. Antique, India, art, imitation art, Japanese vellum, super-calendar, etc. READING LIST. Blades--Paper and paper marks. _L. Vol. 1, 1889, pp. 217-223._ Chivers--Paper and binding of lending library books. _L.J. Vol. 34, 1909, pp. 350-354._ Chivers--The paper of lending library books, with some remarks on their bindings. _Illus. Chivers, 1910._ _Passim._ Coutts _and_ Stephen--Library bookbinding. _Grafton, 1911. 7s. 6d. Chaps. 5 and 6, pp. 62-82._ Davenport--The book: its history and development. _Chap. 3, pp. 62-84._ Encyclopædia Britannica--Article _Paper_. Hitchcock, _editor_.--The building of a book. _pp. 89-98._ Jenkins--Paper making in England (_1495-1714_). _L.A.R. Vol. 2, 1900, pp. 479-488; 577-588. Vol. 3, 1901, pp. 239-251._ Jacobi--Printing. _Chap. 32, pp. 328-339, and samples of paper found at the end of the book._ Jacobi--Some notes on books and printing. _Chap. 5, pp. 56-61 and samples of paper found at the end of the book._ Library Association Book Production Committee--Interim Report, _1913_. Madan--Books in manuscript, their study and use. _K. Paul, 1893. 6s. pp. 6-12._ Maddox--Paper: its history, sources and manufacture. _Pitman, 1916._ _Passim._ Sindall--Manufacture of paper. _Westminster Series. Constable, 1908._ _Passim._ Sindall--Physical qualities of paper. _L.A.R. Vol. 10. 1908, pp. 24-35; 60-62._ Sindall--Manufacture of wood pulp for paper making. _L.A.R. Vol. 10, 1908, pp. 336-341._ Times Printing Number (The)--Articles _Hand-made paper_; _Modern printing papers_; _Wood pulp._