The increasing demand for this species of literature, whether with or
without a purpose—the latter style being, perhaps, the most popular—has
called forth a number of new pens to meet it. Some of these being rather
new at their work, stand in need of a little assistance; and we are most
happy in being able to give it, in the shape of those methods of
commencing a tale which experience has shown to be the most successful,
and hence the most universally followed:—