Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-04-14

political schcmcr. The people of the United
States. should not listen to such tales and they
may be assured they malignant fasehoods
without the shadow Of shade for foundation
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| NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. Those who know any
Ting about the management Of The PRESS far as is
connected with Newspaper publications, know that il is
next to impossible to get publication correct In
paper like ours, The larger proportion OF which
| IS made up Of original matter, often written in
great haste, and gwen the composor without revisa
II Is nc easy matter to be perfectly accurate. An hum
dred times, have we, after paper has been publish
ed, and when supposed it to be correct in casting at
ita casual glance, been chagrred and mortified to 90
toe the most outrageous and palpsbe errors, made
times by ourselves, and sometimes by the composor
aud which have rendered sense the most ridiculous
nonsense In our last an article, re alive to the
duct OF Simon Bolivar was the following sentence, and
INTO which was inserted, without knowledge or cor
sent, the word PK"rorYpr, which destroyed the para
graph, and made whole article supremely ridiculous
" The last arrivals from South America have brought
document OF vast Importance to the world lit is the
aodicaton OF Boivlr his resignation Of Office and oy.
pressed desire for thai retirement which our Washing
ton the political godfather Of Bolivar, SO ardentiy
thF '''r, "h"n @ similarly situated 10 his pres
| ent .'Aa:roUs rkoIO TYPE"
The most ignorant and inlttentve reader could not
Tor moment suppose, that such a ridiculous and papa-
ee biunder could be made by US, AMI as we supposed
every one would make his own correction and that all
would discover that used in the original manuscript
the word profess, and not prototype, VIC had deter.
mined not to notice the error; should We now do
So If we were not forced;o by the remarks of pre-
tended critic, who fourshsd rather urhappily in the
| columns Of the Mondays publication.
That the error originated ir the press and not in the
WRITER he knew to be fact, but chucking and anxious
10 place himself before the public, man who is ac-
quainted with thing two he very kindly told the
pub!c what they would have known without, his assist
ance that prototype is the original ofa copy and quite
different word from protegs, the one used in our
| manuscript, but which in tho course Of its passage
through the press, was transformed prototype. As
we have said, on more occasions than one, do
not profess to be nfable and ready admit that
we, Ike others, occasionally make erar, blunder,
care nothing about the criticism in question: aud it
tesch the writer of that he Of all others, who make
any pretonsohs to acquaintance with litera,ure,
the most deficient, that now turn our attention, for
moment to the subject
To make good assertions, we shall proceed to
up critic, and arragned us at the bar Of the
public The frs, ex,aum,p shall offer for his contcm-
pation, taken from tho ahodelsand American, whilst
that paper edited by Professor Goddard and was
occasionally honoured with the productions Of the wri-
ter, who has assaed literary cfusons and here
we have il -
General La Fayette declined the invitation of
the Committee of the Corporation to attend the
Commencement of Brown University, in very
curiosity manner, expressing his rnest wish to
do so, but statirg his arrangements would not adj
init of his complying with the request of the Com
mittee. ."-R. l. american, ToL AIP. .4ug. 81,
1924.
This extract, taken as it stands, a complete curos
ity and we challenge any to point to paragraph
that we have written that is emneny ridiculous
That the word curiosity introduced it by the wr
ter far from believing, and it will be apparent
evey one that COURTEOUS was the word that writ
ten, bu, which strangely transformed into curiosity
u the writer is rendered ridiculous, ifthe introduction
be not ascrbed to accident rather than design But who
would believe for moment, that he would thus inapt!y
make Of word, and who would not ascrbe the blum
der to the press p! Our unfortunate word typo
graphical error, and but cync would attempt
ascrbe it to any other
We are not disposed to occupy much time or space
with this subject, and shall hasten conclusion, as
possible, after have shown hypercritical
neighbour that he ranks many degrees below the stand
ard of classical writer's.
We place no particular value the humble emana-
tons Of our pen, do suppose that they will
secure TO us the joys ofmmoralty They as cvercs
cent as avapour, read, and probably forgot
| ten Hence whatever fate awaits them, il does not
cause US much joy, grief, anxiety. But if we should
attempt to write book. in Vindication of Public JUS
tcs incorporate crude ideas with those Of
others who have followed the book making busir ess we
should then make eTor, he accurate, and as cas.
scal as possible. Our critical neighbour, has done
something in this way; and in preface, written by
him, and attached to that celebrated literary produc
tion, entitled Na alive Of the adventures Suerngs
and Privatons of Samuel Patterson find the follow
ing rery elegant and classical extract.
"Thc subject Of the following narrative is well
known TO the pujick, Where since his misfor-
tunes he has been in the habit of residing, and
and performing those little services to gain small
pittance for his livelihood, which his present situ-
alton enables him to attend to.
Deprived Of the use Of his limbs, Ga blessing
Dhieh no one can duly appreciate as he moves in
the vgour of his strength, until he becomes equal
ly unfortunate, or contrasts his situation, as he
walks free and unimpeded pa ST some unfortunate