New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06

clined to let a paper go to the stereotyper-as IL
sometimes does-with a column of matter called
IN unread | don't know that such thing ever
bsppens now 1t used TO. / owe more to the
proof reader than journalists who are In tne
nappy position of being able to read thelr own
nroofs I hope I am grateful to him for the
general goodness of his work. | think am, but
nv gratitude does not prevent me from longing
10 nut him to slow torture when he passes bad
error If the error be mine and not MS my re-
sentiment is, of course. the more V1huicuNe' fi"-
man nature is a curious thing But uhe coFrec-
ton Of errors after they have once got INTO print
is like explaining ones meaning. or contrad'clhs
the enemy when he misrcpresents one'-aI these
things are better left undone. The span OF hu-
man life was fixed before the necessity of sucn
things was thought Of
The errors which both the proof reader and the
general reader are most likely to pass are the
plausible errors; the errors which make sense
but a different sense from that which the writer
intended In a letter referring to the publishers
of the Yellow Book and of much other literature
which escapes the reprOach OF being comiiloh-
place Messrs Elkin Mathews and John Lane are
described as a model" young firm. 1t might be
thought presumptuous in a writer 10 say Whit
was or was not a model of publishing eX-
Collcnce. The WpTu Was. III ldCt' H'uVS' $50
hans Messrs. Mathews and Lane might prefer 1t
as printed Mr.. Macmillan supplied fairly
good error from real life. for which he seems to
have been indebted to Mr.. Slime. who mentioned
a writer whose works We're "highly esteemed
both in Germany and England" 1t came back
to him IN proof as highly esteemed bosh.'
Another fact of a different order was disclosed
by Mr. Macmillan. Mr.. Bryce's American
Commonwealth" has been for months prevented
from going into new edition because Mr.. Bryce
was too busy rearranging the magisterial bench
in the Duchy of Lancaster to make the neces-
sarv revisjons in his book" There is another
point to this remark in the fact that Mr. Bryce
and Mr. Macmillan are political opponents. That.
as s,ndry American censors may perceive with
surprise does not prevent them from having
amicable business relations. or from being good
friends personally. And the fact that they are
good personal friends does not restrain Mr.. Mac
milan from a sly allusion to what he no doubt.
and certainly his Conservative friends consider
to be the packing Of the Lancashire Bench of
Magistrates by Mr.. Bryce in the interests of the
party of which he is a member; which Is not the
Conservative party.
Mr.. Burt. NJ Pa Labor Member who Is en-
titled to attention--has spoken words Of sense 10
had been hearing a great deal lately. he told
them, about the minimum wage and about the
living wage. He was for doing all he could TO
keep prices up but he asked them TO bear In
mind that the minimum wage depended upon
prices, and that prices depended very much upon
demand. And he summed up the whole matter
in two sentences: The minimum wage Is
mere phrase. The living wage is impossible OF
definition" II you turn to the report Of Mr..
Burts speech in the Daily Chronicle which
has shrekcd loudcst Of all for the living wage.
You will find these two sentences omitted. NJ
reader of that journal need suspect that Mr..
Burt said anything about minimum wage or liv
ing wage. Such are the advantages Of living in
a balloon; or. If you like the advantages Of being
engaged in a mission SO righteous that all means
To this righteous end are also righteous. SO were
they. and still are, to an interesting body Of
known Jesuits
The general trend Of labor opinion toward
legal Eight Hours day has not affected Mr..
Burts judgment He is opposed to it. as he al
ways has been. His attitude is important. The
New Labor gospel and It's practitioners may pass
him by. But he Is Secretary to the Board Of
Trade and he has influence both in the House
of Commons and with his fellow workmen.
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