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Show HH I Q m "1YVE AND EYE STRAIN. H Dr. E. R. Bostwick, librarian of the St. Louis public H , library, has written to the Yale Review complaining of H i the small sizes of type commonly use in books. He thinks H J it is so small as to create eye strain. He has tried to get H i "-together in his library a collection of large typo books for V" "tired eyes, as lie calls i-, bit can not secure any wide selec-' C, . &ion of volumes. . i . . ' While there is some basis for this1 complaint, books are not printed in nearly as small type as formally.. There was a time when standard novels were printed in type that mo&rfewsWStf&lE Small today JNeWSpaper types are commonly lai-geTtHan Y6Tmej?lyririrm)wonder-that people'4iaVe'eye'jfr'ou,blesitoaay,'.'when one thinks howthei eyes otour fathera'and mothjei.'jVeraihed'Inteadirg-those, mothjei.'jVeraihed'Inteadirg-those, old volumes, , .r -rnnin iti (i -mh h w,unu The evolution of, type, fa,ces''has' sometimes been gow ernedimore by what printer's cHe'd'kHistic dppattctf than by any attempt to -make' types easy to read. A pre-j vailirig style of typ6'rsoin6 yeafts 6 'd.fjUite -fine lines; apd though it yas 6f fairiy good size,.yet it voVJljl take much ,inkltand, the wjiole -appearance, of. apage waa grey.- This must have created ,eye, strain.; , j , ' ;'' Of recent years-there has been aitendency to-, the p$Bi? extreme 'and a jgre'dt run'XMi jtypH Jhjlg' bW "faejfeaj This gives a'blacK appeancetto.theipageiWiiwJoo.W almost dazzling, ,andit inusb 6reate .eVe'istrinp'i'Anothey fad -is.to.dispenseV.with paraW 9W3l artistic printers say this gives ia better! massteffectbut it must bothei-both the eye anftttfff ihinfl 'td'haye''h'6 sugt gestion of si rest orbreak'inithe.cuurentuQf the, thpglitsT Designers of types should1 kedp'in1 mind thatihetifirst aim is not to produce an artistip,qr1spnsatipnal effect, 'but to carry an idea-to the mindnvith the -least lefioii&of'jth'c e.Vd that is possible. A printedJllitt6'i;",at1best1Ia'a1miniitc object,, smaller than the natural human eye was'mean tp look at for any length of 'timei and type can not' be made1 too clear and obvious. , e , ;ol ijt , , U)lt) , J |