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Show llluedors la the Type. Errors of the press often begin with errors of the reportera who have misunderstood spoken words. The rule of follow copy compels the compositor com-positor to repeat the exact worda written writ-ten by the reporter and the following blunders are the result of obedleuce to this rule. A speaker made thla statement: state-ment: "In these days clergymen are expected ex-pected to have the wisdom and learning learn-ing of Jeremy Taylor." But the reporter re-porter wrote, and the compositor repeated: re-peated: " the wisdom and ( learning of a Journeyman tailor." Another speaker quoted these lines: Oh, come, thou goddoas fair and free. In heaven yclept Euphroyne. They were printed aa written: Oh, come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven abe crept and froae hei knee. Another orator quoted this line from Tennyson's "Lorksloy Hall": Better fifty yeara of Europe than cycle of Cathay. But tbe quotation waa written and printed: Better fifty yeara In Europe than a clrcua In Bombay. One of the worst perversions of a hackneyed quotation (incorrectly given giv-en by the apeuker) la this, which seema to be the Joint work of the leal-ous leal-ous reporter and the equally reckless prlntor: Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, ied major Veritas. I may cuss Plato, I may cuss Socrates, aald Major Veritas. The Practice of Typography, T. L, De Vlnno. |