Show the crowth gath ot of Lan ko committee can tell whether a rord aivord is a good word or a bad word or ir hether it is wanted or not old fashioned people will always tell you yon that a now word is not wanted and that more are plenty of exact equivalents for it already in the language this seams conclusive clu sive yet experience often proves that they were wron wrong and that there was a shade chade of meaning which they dd d d not perceive but which was nevertheless pressing eagerly for expression thou sands of v words which we now consider absolutely essential to the language were when they were first introduced ced described as quite unnecessary and the mere surplusage of pedantry or affectation lot let any one turn to anat most humorous of elizabethan plays TUG tho poetaster and read the scene in which the poet marston is ia tho the subject of the tha satire is given an emetic imd and made to bring up all the newfangled words which he has used in his works th clr character who is ig watching the results keeps on caving calling out that such and such monstrosity has newly come up this was thought a brilliant piece of satire at the time and yet now half the condemned words are admitted by all readers and writers in truth there can be no censorship in literature the only possible plan is to give every word its chance and allow the fittest to survive it was in this sense that dryden declared that he be proposed propos id d new words and if the appT approved oved the bill passed and the word became law instead of a writer being on the lookout to throttle and destroy any and every now new word or phrase that may be suggested it ought to be his business to encourage all true and fitting developments of his native tongue dryden in the admirable passage from which we have bave quoted already uses the memorable phrase 1 I trade both with the living and tho dead for the enrichment of our tongue london spectator |