[A] The issue for November, 1906, for example, contains a good
primary booklet and a good grammar booklet. Subject, Thanksgiving.
[B] That is teaching.... The class is free to suggest, free to
choose, but is led skilfully to see for itself the wisdom of choosing
a certain line of action. That line of action was _foreseen_ as
best by the teacher, and, therefore, was _foreordained_ (excuse the
theological terms). Of course, the class was not aware of that. How
can children discover what is best for themselves without a good
teacher?
[C] Go to some well-to-do citizen of your acquaintance, tell him just
what you want _for the children_, and ask him to give you the money
to buy it. The amount will be small, but the satisfaction to the
children and to himself will be great. The children will make him a
special booklet, dedicated to him as their helper. It shall be made
by the best workers in the school. In twenty-five years I have never
been refused when I have asked anything _for the children_.
[D] In place of copyright notice or printer’s imprint, a brief
statement of where and when the booklet was made may be inserted
here, or the monogram or totem of the maker, or a line of dedication.
[E] A folio is simply a sheet of paper folded to make two leaves,
four pages.
[F] The problem of margins is treated at length in “Writing and
Illuminating and Lettering,” by Edward Johnston.
[G] A “vertical” page has its long edges upright and is bound on a
long edge. A “horizontal” page has its long edges horizontal and is
bound on a short edge. The vertical page is the common form, and
should be adopted except in rare cases where the horizontal seems
unavoidable.
[H] Recto is the term used by book makers to indicate the right-hand
page of an open book; verso the left-hand page--the reverse side of a
recto.
[I] From “The Features of a Printed Book,” published by the School of
Printing, North End Union, Parmenter Street, Boston.
[J] “Self-Cultivation in English,” by George Herbert Palmer, is a
brief and illuminating essay bearing upon this topic.
[K] “Familiar Quotations,” Bartlett; “Book of Quotations,” Benham,
and works of similar character will aid in determining popular poems.
[L] A “Perry Picture.” I am indebted to Mr. Eugene A. Perry, of
Malden, Mass., for permission to use this portrait, the print of the
Longfellow Monument, of the Wayside Inn, and of the two Longfellow
Houses (all copyrighted by the Perry Pictures Company).
[M] End papers are ornamented fly leaves. In commercial books each is
a folio, one leaf of which is pasted to the cover, and the other, by
a narrow strip of paste along the back, to the adjacent fly leaf. End
papers, if decorated, have the design on one side only, the side not
pasted. The decoration should be in harmony with the subject matter
and make-up of the volume.