So you see, Peter Parley’s instruction has done me a great deal of good, for how many persons there are who cannot make a good pen, because they never learned how. My little readers, I am now almost twenty years old, but I still remember many other things which I read in Peter Parley’s books when I was a little girl. Mr. Robert Merry talks and writes just like him, almost, and I hope you will love to read and study attentively Merry’s Museum, for it is a good little work, and a pleasant one. Be assured, my young friends, you can learn a great deal from it, if you read it carefully. I should like to say much more to you, but I cannot now. I have been sitting by the fire, in a rocking-chair, writing this on a large book, with a pussy under it for a desk, but she has just jumped from my lap, and refuses to be made a table of any longer. So farewell. Your young friend, LAURA. _Springfield, Jan. 6, 1842_ COOKERY BOOK.--“Has that cookery book any pictures?” said Miss C. to a bookseller. “No, miss, none,” was the answer. “Why,” exclaimed the witty young lady, “what is the use of telling us how to make a good dinner, if they give us no _plates_?” [Illustration: Names of different kinds of Type.] Names of different kinds of Type. Great Primer I will now tell you something English about printing. It may be useful to Pica spend a few lines in giving you an idea of Small Pica the names which are applied to the different sorts Long Primer of type employed in the printing of books. This I shall Bourgeois do by putting against each line of the present paragraph the Brevier name of the type in which it is printed. I shall not attempt to Minion explain the origin of these odd terms, but content myself with giving Nonpareil you a notion of the proportion which one type bears to another; so as to enable Pearl you, when you become author, to give instruc- tions to your printer as to the type you wish him to use. Condensed And by way of enlarging your vocabulary of types, I will Full-face add a few examples of fancy letters, adapted to the title- Antique PAGES OF BOOKS, SHOW BILLS OF VARIOUS Gothic Condensed KINDS, BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, AND MANY OTHER Black purposes. If you will go to Mr. Dickinson’s printing-office, Script No. 52 Washington Street, Boston, you will see a