The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-26
fReprcduced from the Religious Herald oy request
Of ons The men blamed for mis,aNes'I
Errata--Prlnters ana I'rsnt'"s"o
youux Man that Writes verses
s.aa r~s Som ethtug, ke.

Y0mnx Man tUWt "Fs~"
LEARNS Something, 6e.
cit exasperates me-" said young man
,vhn q rites verses. "Six errors In fourteen
Inns! Why do they have such siup'u in ',l
for nriutcrsfv told him ] was not aDie
10 answer that question, aud ihat lnougn.
oysc,f n wonid be a good thing II printers
rnew All about poetry. mathematics
no,ttjes. theology, art, science, history
geography, statistics, and everything e'sc
Thai correspondents write about tbat tnen
tbev might puess az the manuscript "neu
ro, ahIe 10 read IL. and make sense OF "
when the writers failed TO make any; w.
were on our way 10 town, and L toid Tue
young man who writes verses tnal pau "a
little business at the printing once anu u
no would say nothing about ms soHuc1 !
~ ike him to go with me. lie
,'rnnissd. and we went together 10 the
Office. ,o,a tho
ediior had often wondered why PRIMERS
made so many mistakes. He said ne sup
nosed II was because printers are IKE
other people. 1 told bin IL was mistakes !"
p,inting that meant. III II Is 'ypos's,,
nbIcal errors you wish to inqdire ABOUT
he said. ~ will take you TO our PROOF
reader. lie will explain II to you. -.
We found the prooi-reader 10 snug W,
Gle room, with table, TWO cuaire' auu
row OF books. asked BIN II tnere was Nv
wov of printing newspapers without errors.
81 know of nope,v he said; "even the
host hooks have them. Let me show you
few. Here is Ripley's Notes on Acts
BOSTON, 1874. A note to chap. l., verse Il,
says: Viewing the passage In this connec,
sinn they would see how well 1t described
rho doom OF Jesus Evidently a mistake Tor
.Jud0s. Here is an octave Bible, printed Dy
,be merIcan Bible Society in 1874. Among
many errors is this in 3 John IL: He ,hat
Jnetb God Is OF God Our paper,
hurried as we often are, has no errors
worse than these. Here Is Bush's Notes on
Genesis, New y ork, 1889. a note TO chap.
xxxii.. ycr.e 7, reads, Sod is placed Often
times 10 suffer us TO be barrassed with Fears
for God is pleased Here is Bush's Notes
on Exodus, New York, 1861. In note to
chan. XIV, verse IA, quotation from Kew.
viii. 1 reads, 'Wnen zoe had opened the
seventh seal there was silence In heayeo,. Tor
he and silence. Here is Carson on Baptism,
American Bapti,t Publication Society, 1850.
On page 4, when l contend with the
Archbishop ought TO read, 'when con-
tend with The Arion.' An erratum to the
London edition noticed this error, and II
ought 10 HdNt DtNu SoiiSNtSN q" WV
cation Society reprint.
" Here is Horns Introduction, Philadel-
pbia, 1910. In the photographed Appen-
dix, page As, it is said, a Flemish trans
lstion Of the Scriptures was made from the
VuIgate i'm the sixteenth century, and
prinIed at Cologne in 1875, and at Delft in
1872 Could "a translation made in the
sixteenth century have been printed in The
fifteenth Ii reads the same in the 9th
London edition, 1923. The eleventh Lon
don edition, 1868, | have not been able
TO find the sentence. l am not sure what
the correction ought to be.
"Let me now show YOU few dictiona-
ries. Look at Webster's quarto, 1873. In
the introduction, twelfth paragraph, on
pronunciation 1.-THE work is not pagedl, 1t
is said: The favorers OF innovation seem
not TO reflect ON the immense Inconvenience
OF correct citation OF sounds lie meant
TO say convenience. Here is Websters quar-
to, 1913. The verb to church is defined
ito perform with any one the office OF re-
turning thanks 10 the church after any sig
mai deliverance.' In the church was meant.
Here Is Worcester's quarto, 1860. The de-
tnitioD OF nighttime is, 1.-THE time be-
tween the rising and the setting OF the sum-
Certainly strange time for night.
"Look now at this Law Dictionary, Bou-
yier's, third edition, Philadelphia, 1913.
Equity Of redemption is defined, "a right
which The mortgages OF an estate has OF re-
deeuing.' OF course it ought to be mort
oo0or. Now, turn 10 the Revised Statutes,
United States, 1875, with its appendix OF
five large pages TO correct errors and sup
DIV omissions In section 300 the eighth
and ninth lues are transp0sed. The dlrec-
ton in the appendix for correcting this error
saws: The ninth and tenth lines should
be transposed.' This is making bad worse.
This direction, IL followed, would correct
no error, but would make another.
"If Bibles, dictionaries, laws, aud other
standard works, printed at the best offices
i'm the county. are not Tree from errors,
YOU ought not to be surprised to lind some
In newspapers"
/ asked him il there were as many errors
formerly as now. "Tbey have existed" he
said, since the invention Of printing, and
were in manuscript before printing was
known. There were never fewer than now.
Here is a volume published in London. 1872,
entitled "a Century OF Bibles 1t Is a
photography OF the authorized version from
1911 TO I'LL. See what il says OF some oil
the editions. A London folio Of 1913 is
described as exceedingly Incorrect A
small Bible, London, 1893, is full OF
errors Wives for riteS, 'evill 'forrtght
.nolluted' for halo,oed, purifying fol
purifying. are examples. II says OF ar
edition OF the New Testament, printed a.
Edinburgh in 1894. at would be very safe
10 ASSET that every column has one or more
mistakes A small Bible, London, I'LL, i:
very enormously printed And so Of
many other editions.
l. vi a a
entitled dangerous errors in several late
printed Bibles, to the great scandal OF sounC
and true religion Ii is reprinted entire ii
the Century OF Bibles The author men
tons many such errsrs as these: Rulers
for mules, corruption for conception,
condemnation for redemption.
''But the errors called typographical are
not all such. Some are slips OF the pen
Probably some that / have been showing
you were faults of the author or copyist
not OF tue printer. II you were to see some
OF the manuscript that comes 10 this offic'
you would be surprised, not that there arr
some errors in printing it, but that we car
make any sense OF ii at all. l don't thinl
our editor ever uses profsne language, bu
his words are sometimes terribly emphatic
when trying TO decipher what he calls HE
rogly phics. Our foreman once figured III
what bad manuscript costs the Office in los
OF time TO editor, compositors, and proof
reader, and he made it nearly equal TO tn
wages OF one iourneyman.
Zone Of the most troublesome words Il
the printer ms well as TO the writer is tb
little word not. Let me show you few
instances OF its omission. Carson on Bap
tism, Publication Society edition, page 49l
says: When Justin speaks Of purifca
tion LIE never employs any word that sig