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Show "Good English," In discussing editorially tho art of writing good English, the Now York Evening Post assorts, what wo may easily believe, that tho fault of most manuscript manu-script submitted to Its editors is not orralic punctuation, grammatical blunders blund-ers or improprieties. Theso aro superficial super-ficial vices. "Tho articles aro cloggod with words, all of thom correct, half of thom supcrlluous;" which recalls a passage pas-sage In Boswoll'3 "Johnson": "I took down Thompson," Eald Johnson, "and read aloud a largo portion of him, and then askod, 'Is not this fln87' Shlols having hav-ing oxpressod the highest admiration, 'Well, sir,' said I, 'I have omlttod every other lino.' " |