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“Mr. Cooper himself says: ‘Italic is so much closer to its parent pen form than the roman that freedom is almost the life of it, and readers’ eyes do not resent in italic, so much as in roman, departure from familiar regularity. I have dared for this reason to give to the italic more of novelty than I gave the roman... which I think some advantage in these days when italic is used comparatively little for mere emphasis and mostly for variety in display.’ ”