Show JfO BOOK PERFECT It Seems Impossible to Print Worli Typographically Correct I remember once of a publisher In London who made up his mind to publish pub-lish a book that should have no typographical typo-graphical errors whatever He had his proofs corrected OJ his own proof 1rof readers until they all 3 red him that there were no longer any errors In the text Then he sent proofs to the universities uni-versities and to other publishing houses offering a prize of several pounds ster ling in cash for every typographical mistake that could be found Hundreds of proofs were sent out in this way and many skilled proofreaders proof-readers examined the pages in the hope of earning a prize A few errors were discovered Then l the proof sheets having been heard from the publisher felt assured that his book would appear ap-pear before the public an absolutely perfect piece of composition He had the plates cast the edition printed and bound between extensive because I be-cause a a perfect specimen of the printers art it was of curse unique in literature and exceedingly valuable to bibliophiles The edition sold well and was spread all over the country The publisher was very much pleased with himself for having done something that had hitherto been considered an impossi bility Then his pride had a fall for six or eight months later he received a letter calling his attention to an error er-ror in a certain line on a certain page Then came another letter announcing the discovery of a second error In this perfect book I believe before the year was up four o five mistakes were found Harpers Round Table THE CORONET I would seem almost unnecessary to say that only women with titles should wear coronets and then the coronet which their rank accords them the right to wear and it is amusing and exasperating to have to admit that American women have made themselves them-selves ridiculous all over the world by calmly ignoring this fact and I suppose sup-pose there are fifty freeborn American women at least and all of them married mar-ried to American men h are com iplacently decorated upon gala occasions occa-sions with the insignia or a rank to which they have not the shadow of a claim What should we think of a young man who had never even entered the charmed gates of West Point were he to invest himself with a uniform of a majorgeneral of the United States army on all high social occasions The appropriation or misappropriation of one emblem or insignia of rank is not more of an absurdity than the other Of course American girls who marry foreign noblemen have the marr wear coronets galore |