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Show A Printer's Mistakes. Thcie Is a ccitaln mistrust, char-acteilcd char-acteilcd by a reeling or soreness, generally gen-erally existing between tho proicsslon-al proicsslon-al w liter for the press and the printer. It does not amount to much, and is somewhat less in the picsont day than it was In the last generation, because pilnteis print better than they did thirty or foity years, and vvrltcis are less careless than tlicv were at that date. Thcie aie faults however, on both sides, though, if we weie called upon to decide vvheic lies the preponderance prepond-erance or blame, wo should feel bound gieatly tocxonciatc the printer, who Is larely chargeable with more than a titho of the blunders placed to his account. In noticing the various kinds or errors, we may begin with those which aie meiely verbal, and which for the most part are due to the writeis, who aie apt not only to write Illegibly, bub to lead their prooN carelessly, and leave criors standing which they ought to coircct. Such veibal blunders aie at times ludicrous enough, as when a vviltcr, intending to speak or Cato and Riutus. Is made to speak of cats and brutes; or another as happened a short time ago, announces announ-ces the publication of a now work In the form of a "tivc-shllllng elephant", meaning "a live-shilling pamphlet." "Some of these are full blown noses," instead of "full blown loses;" "he arose and shook olt his cais," Instead of "shook olT his fears;" "hoiso litera ture" Instead of "Noise llteiatuie;" "syllabub," Instead of "syllabus" "omelet," Instead or "amulet;" and not a few which, anient In the pilnt-Ing pilnt-Ing ofllee, need not circulate beyond It. Many of the veibal errois aie or a kind which will escape tlie eve or the most watchful reader; because, though they weaken or peivcrt the sense of the author, they do not destroy It. Thus, "distraction" Is often printed "destitution," and vice versa; "haven" is often pi In ted "heaven;" and we can lccall aciitlclsm on a plctuie where the painter was blamed foi his "violet color." Instead of his "violent color." again thcie aie verbal criois for which accident alone is to blame; thus In a costly edition of Moore's poems, one of the verses begins "A sence makes the heart grow fonder," the "b" In absenco having diopped out of the pi inter's form between the llnal leading and the vvoiking olt A similar simi-lar accident accounts for "old fowl," instead of "cold fowl," In tho carte of a dining house. |