Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — Typographical Blunders. [ARTICLE]

Typographical Blunders.

Sir Arthur Heins was, I think, oversensitive to adverso criticism, of which he had perhaps not enough to allow him to grow callous to it, and the least misprints in his own books or articles annoyed him exceedingly. There was a passage from his “Organization in Daily Life,” in which, speakiug of vultures gaihering to their prey, he had used the Yirgilian pliraso “obscene birds,” which had been printed “obscure birds.” The mistake was not noticed by any of several persons who read the proofs in succession, and I remember that his gratitude was quite effusive when his attention was called to the word just as tlie book was being sent to press. After all, the blunder was not a serious one. and was nothing like that of the lady traveler who wrote that the “whole wilderness was filled with erratic blocks,” and who, failing tq revise her proofs, found that tbe priuters had taken on themselves to correct her geological expression, and that she was made to asjsert that the “whole wilderness was filled with erotic blacks.”— Th e Academy.