Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Praising the Printer. [ARTICLE]

Praising the Printer.

George Augustus Sala, in presiding iver the annual dinner of the London Association of Correctors of the Press, it the Holborn restaurant, paid, a high rod deserved compliment to those gentlemen for their labors on behalf of the iccuracy of literature. In old times, he laid, printers chained copies of the!/ 6 books outside their offices, and if any passing soholar succeeded in detecting in error he was rewarded according to its magnitude—a cup of wine for a broken letter, a cup of wme and a plate of meat Eor a turned letter or a wrong font, and a much larger guerdon for an error in grammar. At the present time the daily and weekly press, as well as the general literature of England, might be considered unrivalled throughout the world for its accuracy, its beauty and its soholarihip, and, so far as he was concerned personally, he cheerfully paid a fortyleven years’ debt of gratitude to the correctors for the care they had always taken with his manuscript.