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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 135, 30 April 1885, Page 3

Painrtakimu people, who know next to nothing ot printing, find a special delight in searching, out '. typographic errors in newspaper*, periodicals and books, the detection of a blander, in thoir own estimation, putting a premium on individual • intelligence— conf erring a privilege of disparaging, printert. Men of intelligence, who write well but not legibly, never tire of pointing out mistakes of printers andthe oversight of proof-readers. Theselfconstitnted censors ofi typography may find food for: wholesome reflection in the fnet.thafc. just apout one hundred' yearssgo a-jmavber.ef .professors' in "the: Rdm- ' burgh University undertook the publication ef a book which! should be a perfect specimen jot x-. - typographical accuracy; Kvery conceivable- precautioi was taken to pneveht; errors of the types. Six ex* perienced proof -readers were .employed, whi»'devoted hours to the reading of each page,.? . After their careful task was comdleied, eaeh. page was posted in tho hall of the. University, rwith a notification that £50 would be • paid to any person wbo Bhoqjj/flLjsncceed: :in -discovering an error. Every .page 'remained thus publicly exposed for two Weeks before being retnrned to the printing office. The proprietors df the work felt confident: tkatcthe object-'so diligently 'striven. 'foir i liad-Ibelsn attained Great was the discomfiture of the learned men ; wheiii on-fcho book being issued^ se>-' eral-orrors were; found, one occurring m ! the first line' ef> the first page;— Printer's Circular- j in '«'.•>;.'■•.-''"'' .:-''iv--->l jr. <•:) ' Hey.v,S,ffflbo,ffiha* 4'-J? ;(w]r?!y,o' las too^nwicj. fo^s.p^-ir.darfeey.r :/ Wha dey^ Wl* W4 »te.am de *w^s&»lW,..« 11. '!.*• ' u-.rR • .:■:..■