title: An Essay on Typography
author:  Eric Gill 
description: An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information.<br><br>This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman & to define their limits."<br><br>His thinking about type is still provocative. Here are the seeds of modern advertising unjustified lines, tight word and letter spacing, ample leading. Here, too, is vintage Gill, as polemical as he is practical, as much concerned about the soul of man as the work of man; as much obsessed by the ends as by the means.
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  # The Confidence-Man
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Herman Melville
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE
  
  
  MISSISSIPPI.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. SHOWING THAT MANY MEN HAVE MANY MINDS.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III. IN WHICH A VARIETY OF CHARACTERS
  
  
  APPEAR.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. RENEWAL OF OLD ACQUAINTANCE
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE MAN WITH THE WEED MAKES IT AN EVEN
  
  
  QUESTION WHETHER HE BE A GREAT SAGE OR GREAT SIMPLETON.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. AT THE OUTSET OF WHICH CERTAIN
  
  
  PASSENGERS PROVE DEAF TO THE CALL OF CHARITY.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. A GENTLEMAN WITH GOLD SLE