Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-19 | Page 2 | Typographical Blunders

Typographical danders Sir Arthur Helps was I think oversensitive oversen-sitive to adverse criticism of which he had perhaps not enough to allow him to grow callous to it and the least misprints in his own books or articles annoyed him exceedingly There was a passage from his Organization in Daily Life in which speaking of vultures gathering to their prey ho had used the Virgilian phrase obscene birds which had been misprinted misprint-ed obscure birds The mistake was not noticed by any of several persons who read the proofs in succession and I remember that his gratitude was quite effusive when his attention was called to the word just as the book was being sent to press After all the blunder was not a serious one and was nothing like that of the lady traveler who wrote that tlje whole wilderness wil-derness was filled with erratic blocks and who failing to revise her proofs found that the printers hud taken on themselves to correct her geological expression and that she was made to assert that the whole wilderness was filled with erotia hlackslThe Academy