The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-04-01
SIN OF TLLEGIBTLTTY.
HUoo's MANUSCRIPTS LOOKED
LIKE a BATTLEFIELD.
ienrsy's Writing Read Equally Wen
Eiibsr WAY Henry ward Bseeher'.
Danrhisrs Three RuIe- other HAD
Writers who Have Won PANE.

Periodically. the best writer's have
been usually the worst. The preachers.
following a common rule. have been
~ greatest sinners. says the London
Globe. Although Pope once wrote.
"of an the arts In which the wise ex-
eel.
Natures true masterpiece Is writing
well"
he d.d not take the trouble 10 follow
h's oNu prescription llleglbilitt. a.
Naiaau.,, Hawthorne was wont 10 as
rr.' YES very auihor-litc. and Ger.
Hlt'i to made % Cnrsumma'e practl-
TONER ln ihe arL few being robust
enough 10 attempt 20 decipher his call
.igrlphical night mares This learned
indifference viii surely account for the
severe hustling The pen is now under
going The world b. rushing Tor the
typewriter. and little wonder on
course. penmanshIp as one ~ the ac-
accomplishments NJ a polite education.
went out q long while ago. Then mere
handwriting followed. and now this -
folug Indeed. only lncorrIgihle def
clients In photography sim render any
sort % allegiance 20 the pen. and this
from necessity not choice authors.
university men. doctors and writing
mon generally NOT knowing how 90
SPELL. are able with pen 20 Judi
ciou,Iy Elur over uncertain words
dl.niily allorrt'ng b'ois and ali is we'll
except that cnmpnsltors. as a loly.
rrofauo horribly. end according 70
tradition. carly recome bacrhan1lInn
in their habits Writers have o. deal
20 answer for 4 little ~ ihc rift W
prophetic vision shows us the once
homcly pen the boon ard blessing %
onc-tImc civilization. surviving sim
pr as leading curio IN the dime mu-
reums.
n Is mere Justice TO record that the
pen itself has bad mo- con'r.butory
part in Dos extinction n h1s r0t been
thc fault Of tho pom. q hle been the
Wcrs helped by all manner N unto
ward circumstance Ogco. u need nor
surprise anyone. ronm5rshIp actually
had some character in &c. Was NOT
Sir Andrew Aguc.chsck rouraclol hy
BITS friend Sir Toby 20 write hIs chal.
l'nro ln martial hlnd' Md there
Us other proof Tho philosopher Locke
'houghi so highly ~ good writing aH
tu design q srt of wr.tiur copies Dor
'he children Of Dds friend BENJAMIN
Furlcy But The v0gdr0us examples
20 The OIL writing masters most Per.
fortly demonstrate ihe power w the
PEN ln shl.'fu hands And they work
cl with Indifferent implements Quill
pens; no one could write lerIbly with
a Quill pen nowadays Before ihe De.
covery o. ihe art uf printing the cali,
INK Of The writing master ras one Of
deserved honor. aud bis work. as we
know took the form % % Gue lrt
Louis XIII and XIV had writing mas.
ters 10 their encourage with the lluL
of secrctl.rc dc la chambra du r1i Z,
Is q revelation 90 us. writing holIiur
such n subordinate place 'u lur scheme
OF education. 90 sec the charm ~ form
aud Ingenuity " design which belonged
TO the characters Of our forciaihcrs
The Italians " course. were tho
siyllists. being pro.emineut iu this al
the other arts The copies of the self
satisfied Johannes plaiinns. exam.
pies o. the ordinary mercantile hand
writing of bis time 1880. show a mar.
vicious precision LOO form combined
with graceful fancy The earliest Eng.
lish master Peter Bales evidently bor.
rowod from The Italians. and Edward
Cocker lponman as well AZ ari,hmefi
clam hod dainty power .u decorative,
adiuncts 10 the ordinary writing Tho
ancient pcnmen 'nourlshod" consider.
ably. drawing animals and birds and
fanciful themes with wonderful free.
dom and fancy as an artistic cmbellish.
men' Of the script vendcn sieono ol
Client and Morantc. a Spanish teacher
were specially expert In this drawins
by continuous frcehsnd lines the ehoic
est Of decorative work. u must bay,
been a pleasure 10 receive letter In
the old days, but they must have had
a powerful lot Of time on their hands
Still 70 shows how sadly We have dc
generated In this mystic arr q,
painting speech aud speaking 4, m,
eyes from elaborate outline 10. al IN,
very best. bare legibllliy
u is thc peryorlty of human p,,tr,
that people who ought 10 do one Thin,
do another Men who write a loglbl,
hand mo one can accomplish m,r.
than that now viii uso a typovrI,,r
and others. who ought never 10 b.
trusted with a pen order them hy tb.
gross and take The discount RlJ
yard klplng writes noit drlir,t.
hand and Conan Doyle "a as plain a.
the proyorbial pik'staF. but lo.b a..
machines It would have saved , d,,
Of misery and helped 10 pcrpcuafc
useful art n other writer's OF omIpep,,
could have been prevailed upon d.
type Unfortunately tho tyrrwr.t
cr was too hclatcd an invention d.
affect many ut the best bad ariicr
Carlyle would not have struggled win
o keyboard hut % wouM lave prc
vonici that miserable compassion Ace
ing from Edinburgh 90 London oui -,
his way II he had CARLYLE. however
was copperplate TO others Chat conf,
be mentioned. llugos mluuscrlpts
We are told preso'tod the npus,8ur,
Of sort " battlefield on bauer :,
which Abe Killed words were VOL
stamped ont and The new recruit
pushed forward 10 anything but zoo,
order
Napoleon was unique IN everything
even In bis handwriting. His letter
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