A small type, called nonpareil, was introduced into English printing houses from Holland about the year 1650, and became admired and preferred beyond the others in common use. It seems to have become a favorite type with Shakespeare, who calls many of his lady characters "Nonpareils." Prospero calls his daughter "a Nonpareil." (Tempest, Act III, Scene 2d) Olivia, in "Twelfth Night," is the "Nonpareil of Beauty" (Act I, Scene 5), and in Cymbeline, Posthumous is made to call Imogen the "Nonpareil of her time" (Act II, Scene 5). When a certain number of pages of type have been composed they are placed in an iron frame called a "chase," laid upon an "imposing" stone, a piece of beveled wood, called a "sidestick," is placed beside the pages, and small wedges of beveled hard wood, called "coigns," or "quoins," are tightly driven in, holding the pages firmly in their places, and making a compact "form." Surely there is an allusion to this in Pericles III, 1.= ````"By the four opposing coigns ````Which the world together joins."= {224}Before tlie "form" is taken from the stone to be put on the press, the quoins are made very tight with a "mallet" to insure its "lifting" safely.= ```"There is no more conceit in him than there is in a mallet." `````--_2 Henry IV, 2._= which process is called "locking-up," and when completed, the form is said, technically, to be "locked-up," or fast.= ````"fast locked-up in sleep." `````--_Measure for Measure, IV, 2._= And to what but the care taken by a printer to make his forms "register" can we attribute the use of that word in Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 9.= ```"But let the world rank me in register-- ```A master leaver and a fugitive."= Punctuation is a fruitful source of misunderstanding between an author and his printer. Very few authors punctuate their manuscript as they would wish to see it in the print, and fewer yet are apt to be good natured and satisfied when the printer punctuates for them. William Shakespeare may have remembered this when he wrote:= ````"Wherefore stand you on nice points?" `````--_3 Henry VI, iv, 7_.= ````"Stand a comma 'tween their amities." `````--_Hamlet, V, 2._= ````"My point and period,... ill or well." `````--_Lear, IV 7._= ````"points that seem impossible." `````--_Pericles, V, 1._= {225} ````"Puts the period often from his place." `````--_Lucrece, line 565._= ```"You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent." ````"No levelled malice infests one comma." `````-- _Timon, I, 1._= ```"Come we to full points here? And are et ceteras nothing?"= Possibly a book-worm, or even a bookseller might draw as many similes as Shakespeare did, from books--as for example:= ```"Show me your image in some antique book." `````_--Sonnet, 1. ix._= ```"Has a book in his pocket with red letters in it." `````--_2 Henry VI, ix, 2._= ````"My red dominical--my golden letter!" `````--_Loves Labours Lost, V, 2._=