New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-14
ERRORS OF PRINTERS.
Btunders of Types Lucky and
UnLucicy.

among the masterpieces OF laundering tvpopra-
phy must be recloned two perpetrated in a soT+b
err peWspapeF. An editor, wishing to congratulate
General Pillow after his return from Nexioo a. =
hattie SCARED veteran. was made nv tho $50 -.
Characterize him as "a battle scared veteran tn
indignant general. rushing into the editorial sar
1UIn' demanded an explanation. which was given
and a correction promised in the next dave ,onor
Judge OF the editors feelings on the ,,,c -
as II TO heap horrors upon horrors bead +" he
Found the general styled In the revised naragr.,b
that bottle SCARED veteran"l
II mas otten surprised those who have been vic
tins OF typographical errors that amid tho tn,+a
combinations of types there ara horaI,, O.. 49,
plumbers IN the authors favor turning ceconbony
into euphony turgidity into s1blirnjtv ond ron
sense Hl'o sense 1t is true that once in century
. 'ho1eHt .S actually improved by typographical
bIunoer. II Is told for example OF Aalsherbe that
when IN his famous epistle to Du Perrier whose
caughters name was Rosette. he had written EFT
Rosette a Necu &c que vivent les roses' (And
Rosette mas lived as the roses live). the printer
who found the manuscript difficult To read nu+
'Rosolle,' instead Of "Rosette" Nra1sbor,,o 8,
reading the proof. was struck by the change and
reTTote his verse as follows: ct Rose ellie a vecu
&c cue Vivent les roses, respece dun rnatin" (And
Rose, she has lived as the roses live the SPACE of
morning. but cases ike these are exceedingly
rare.
Some years ago The London T1nes"-fn speaking
o. discussion before the Council OF Minister'S
when Lore BroughaIn was Chancellor, stated that
~--1---SA-A AiaA thrown an extraordinary light
the question" In The london Christian
World. n 1883. writer, referring 10 an address at
Christ Church by the Rev. Theodore Hookes rep
resented him as saying that some OF the clergy had
hood"
In one Of the editions Of Davtdson's Popular Eng
hsh Grammar the principal parts of the verb ITO
sAide' were given as follows: Present ninitfve,
shl-drsn.. In The London Courier many years
ag9 filS MAJESTY George ~ was said to have "a fit
= Urn 1rIN
t5ed sermon by a celebrated divine on THE I'M
Pcets"-a work, doubt, Of many volumes The
LONDON Store once gave an extract from the regis
80 al iesgFn N which 1t was stated that
f IN, 1i .f 5'I 60, 81 Aoadon were suffering at that
4 letter more or letter less makes strange havoc
q Z sentence Early in the French Revolution the
pamphlet IN defence of his political conduct read
4 have abjuTed the rePablic'-a misprfnt for ad,
wish 20 send me TO the guilIotine?' What is trea-
5oI' once asked wag, but reason TO ''t''2-whch
-. an accent OF the press may displace with
who omitted the first letter OF Mr. 5ssyLeii naea
lts3t have pleaded that It was las welI' without
POPE sixtus Y in order 70 exclude every possible
sEIor rom an edition OF the Vulgate Bible which he
printing OF every sheet yet it swarned with errors
Eegetieal printers made great fln OF this demon;
printers VINO in Teprnting the work should alter the
An edition Of the Bible printed at the Clarendon
pause in the title Of the twentieth chapter OF Luke
he vinegar Perhaps the most fearful error OF the
press that ever occurred caused by the letter
CO dropping out Of the following passage IN form
y the Book Of Common Prayer; I'VE shall all be
changed IN the twinkling Of an eye" When the
book appeared the passage, to the horror OF the
seyout reader, was thus printed: We shall all be
hanged n the twnEling of eye"
Mistakes in punctuation. such as the omission or
ulsplaCing OF q comma, sometimes greatly change
the sense xof = passage. as when compostor-
yH-.-sty pig oacIle4oi-ln seLtlng up
z savage" put the comma in the wrong place and
made the sentence read, Woman, without her man,
would be savage"
During the last half century there has been a re
narkable Improvement IN regard to errors Of the
press writer today may use the word eclectic
with full assurance that il Will not be metaIaor-
ph0sed by the typographical imp into electric
and may take up proof from any respectable pub
fisher without shuddering with fear that, in Hoods
phrase, all his roses have been turned into noses, all
his angels into angles and all his happiness into
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