broken. English founders should abandon the latter in favor of the neater sign used in all other lands. The character is out of harmony with all the rest, and the name of  Herschell  as applied to the planet Uranus is as obsolete as  Georgium Sidus  We are in want of a good set. We have astronomical and mathematical signs by the pound -- but to laboriously patch hundreds of small-bodied brevier sorts with paper to work with 8-point, is a task that would tax the patience of Job -- and the only other alternative is to have whole pages of intricate composition reduced to pie. But we would patch away for ever rather than use such signs as we find in our American specimen-books.