180 ONCE WEEK. 1864.
down on
it.
C,
Yet we may pity the disconsolate father of so battered an offspring.
would you, reader, say to having one of
fin
efforts
composition thus
mauled at the
hands of an absolute
writhes
"t
again.
mutters something about the despotism of editors; but there
Whatever
of
him
ah,
into
a,
of him.
of
origin,
Succeeded U/ /if la/
overawe
%
dagm i lwl submission
unmistakeably, so
tlief
as
far
feeling
and
attitude of the
."triag t nt
So
neutrality.
it
strictest/
his
nguished
his disregard of that
Public opinion, however, had declared A
itself/
Cabinet A
i
its
finest
your
ruthlessly dictator
I
UL its
[Feb.
no help for
is
t
i.storting its
A
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few days to be
j
If
/
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dele/
However this " distimore than once reads. eJlzltloi/edl
words A conceal his intentions, and therefore conduct by no means takes us by sur-
his present prise.
Innocent as a passage may appear in its original state, it nevertheless undergoes similar
tion and revision, and re-correction and
until it acquires the reduced—
strengthened, possibly matured—form
the fancy of the editor. I shall say
the man-in-grizzled-hair's criticism;
it as men are married—
misrepresentations put forth in the unrevised pages of a newspaper. Men long dead are made to come to life, or those living to be in half-a-dozen places at once; geography is metamorphosed, cities being transferred to countries to which they never belonged, and countries condensed into cities; judgments are reversed which were never reversed, measures are thrown out which were never rejected; figures get huddled together in financial columns, and wonder how they got there; history groans to see her most faithful passages distorted or perverted; and many a
The pruning-hook holder, however, is not always to blame, or always unnecessarily in
uthor is occasionally Brit proof of his article, If to thank. hat
kind of calligraphy could it have been wh
Ing curious They ociil.tr
book
cont'u:
work
— " The ior
on
man
— Heaven
forgive the
calumny
—
is
made
to contradict his very own w< are all these blunders,
falsifications of fact, and unintelligible
The chief marvel is, that, with the thousand difficulties and jusable. i
.
ol
and the expr< few such crimes can be laid
iply,
litor,
"
King
tin;
When
composition detailed to each man, have
final h
mechanical department
various
and polished off,
Med a
"turtle."
then hui
withoui are
mere
i