Loose Accents.—

The Central Typefoundry has introduced an excellent idea, the credit of which is due to the ingenious Mr St. John, by which all manner of special accents may be used in jobfounts, without any extra trouble either to typefounders or printers, without the cost of special matrices, or the expense of keeping a great variety of extra sorts, rarely used, and not always to be found when wanted. The notion is so simple that it is a wonder it was not thought of before. The vowel is cast with a slot reaching nearly to the top of the letter; the loose accent is cast on an even-point body to fit, so that the same lower-case letter may be used without accent at all, or interchangeably I with any in the series. (Nothing is said of the i, which must for this purpose be cast without the dot.)