| Show typographical accuracy every one ono who has been in the habit habitt of reading carefully th the london eLondon newspapers as well as those of our own city cannot have failed to notice the greater typographical accuracy of the english press this is not achieved without immense expense and labor on the great london dallies dailies each portion of matter passes asses through a number of di merent Terent rands gands hands from the reader generally a fairly educated man it goes to the su sub b editors room where it is carefully perused by a gentleman in his depa department rt ment thence it passes if editorial matter to the editors room and is carefully gone over by one of the chiefs of the editorial department one of the principal dailies retains the services of a gentleman whose extraordinarily extensive reading and retentive memory make him invaluable in correcting inaccuracies acie acle in the way of quotation and ill lil illustration tra tion it is his duly to read over every editorial and morsel morsel of foreign correspondence pon dence the editorials on the times and telegraph are so much altered by the editorial overseers that to the great annoyance of their authors they could hardly be recognized as the original na composition 1 I dont quite like th that al it an editor will say see if you can give more point to the wind up of this leader after that it will go to some one else who will make still further alter the result is a familiarity and equality of tone which 18 specially observed in the london times the arti cles although written by very different people are so thoroughly trimmed by the same hands that they are distinguished by the special style desired these refinements are unknown here and more carelessness than is exhibited exhibited by y some of our best pipers papers cannot bo be found except perhaps in the provincial press of Irela ireland ill ilg A joural |
