The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-23

writers is destined to become more gen- orally known. Several ediSons of Mill toms poems reproduce completely or in large part the spelling of the original edi$ons. The New Variorurn $akes- peare of Dr. Furness gives for each play a literal reprint of. the tecst O. the First Folio edison
 The spellings from Shakespeare and Milton which I wis to recommend are
 more or less familiar to all literary
 men; they have never gone entirely out of use; and consecwently they will
 cause the minimum of irrita$on to read- CTS. The regular form of the word rine ! in Shakespeare and Milton is r-i-m-e. Coleridge has made Engli$ readers fa- miliar with this older form in the title of his poem 'The Rime of the Ansent Mariner" Rime is a native Engli$ word which has taken on its usual aWlx- ' ward $ape, rhyme, because of the blum
 dering no$on that it Is connected in
 some way with the word rhythm, bor- rowed from the Greek. 3an
 ! Also such preterites and participles
 as fest, micst, slept, stopt, ript, van cwist etc. are spelt by Shakespeare ana
 Milton with a final t. Those spellings are more or less familiar to all who are widely read and have been used by some modern writers. Many preterites
 and participles are universally written with a final t such as felt, lent, etc; others can be when SO pronounced, as
 spelt, spoilt, etc.
 I Again, Milton always spelt sevran, tho | Shakespeare used a form somewhat like | ours. The word became niis$aped
 because of a mistaken idea that it had
 some eonnecSen with the word reign. l Thru the influence of the ediSons of | Milton which retain the poets usage, and other books using the same form, I all well read men are familiar with the spelling sovran, and will not mistake you for an illiterate because you use 1t. l You will be a conservative, preserving the glorious language of Shakespeare and
 Milton, if you spell rine, sovran, and
 the verbal forms like micst, stopt and i.yancwi$t in the manner suggested. I Let us oppose the modern innovators who have corrupted our spelling.
 For many years the Springfield | ANActSosl itVpupitCoh AlcS pllnLSu plO- gram without the --nle and such words
 as dialog, monolog, prolog, epilog, cata- l log, decalog, demagog and pedagog without the -ue. Will not some infiuen- I Sal sicago daily, which values the favor of the educators of Illinois and Wiscon-
 sin, and think may say of the whole
 country, follow this good ecsample, and
 use also the simplifed forms of tho and
 altho? Perhaps this Is as far as il
 would be wise for a great paper to go
 at present. In view of the practically
 unanimous acson of the Teachers aso- $a$on of this state last December, is it
 not plain that newspaper taking this
 step now would have no occa$on to re- | gret it? Such ac$on would forever be T an honorable page in the history of the l paper. I am proud of the daily press of ! $icago. A very able newspaper man of the east recently told me that our news | papers are abler, more dignifed, and less provin$al than those of any other
 large American city, He spoke partic- ! ularly of their superiority to those of New York. Is there not a great $icago paper that will take the moderate and
 sensible forward step for which I plead? Note.--1,5oO words, "cw'' serves qu5 {, times; ''cs" serves x IS times; "$' the I sh sound 101 times-The elimination of l and x and the substitution of 5 for the { sh sound is rather my idea and not Dr.
 Tolman's. though I grant he would
 sanction the idea with a hearty god- I speed. S@7 | EE.ai 7~, poprr,u 11r MIA coN