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PITFALLS IN ENGLISH,
- SOME RECENT LITERARY- HOWLERS.
[RKY HOBERTS.]
To wrifi good English is to fight a big bataie spessfully," And many there are who go under in the struggle..
-What of the military critic who printed-
with an operation, would pia down. the cream of the Austring armies "¿Poor fellow, how he must have suffered for writing that Ahl was 15 the same, TAN who said this is the kind of eyewash the German soldiers have to swallow*** 3
Writing is, indeed, as Tuft of trager as The author who the enemy's trenches. never falls into one has yet to be born. Some day he takes it for granted that The knows something. pats it down serenely, and the critics roar at him. For in- stance, it is an axiom that bears have no tails, and yet a very good novelist wrote a story in which a savage bear, charged. "waving its tail! It is only fair to say that she was a lady; she knew nothing of hunting, and, as he wrote. Evolved her hear, as the German, did the camel, from her inner consciouNİJEMM,
"STOOD PROSTRATE.
It is alleged that some speaker unce stated that he stood prostrate with astonishment." He may have ben Sir Boyle Roche. But who has not spoken or written something of the kind? An Irishma once said to me. I hate Low. deu. If I lived here all my life I should div." But I have done dreadful things myself. A great naturalist approached me with a serion, countenance and, after an increasingly wustere preamble, said ther I had made a blackbird whistle in winter. And let de tell you that a blackbird never whistles during that season. Sir, he only chackles i "
What is even worst. I made a mathe matical error" which even now worries, me during sleepless nights. But such mis takes, dreadfal as they are, seem nothing when I remember that in a book written by a well-known, novelist one of his character raised his bat. and disclosed two rows of dazzling white teeth." ·So far as I am aware, this has never beep recorded, even in the Journal of Anatomy, but I think it ought me be remembered.
Another writer for whom I have a sin. cere admiration, once fell into an appal- ling verbal trap. In his haate su produce another masterpiece (honestly, he is 'cag. able of one) be described the appearance and dress of a certain gentleman and said that the whole was surmounted by a bowler hat and a pair of patent leather shoes."
PRICELESS BUTi..
If I could only mention names I think I should surprise England and America by the next example of how not to write But nothing less than torture shall drag oat of me the name of the man who was guilty of the finest ball in the English language. He is a writer for whom I have every possible respect and the greatest admiration. I know nothing of his that is bad and much that is supremely good. And yet, in the middle of a tale which is a masterpiece, a visitor followed a small maid into an even sinaller drawing. room: There is something so completely wrong about this that only a genius could have achieved it. It could not be the work of a niere hasty journaliss or a pretea- tious popular back who pushes his barrow of bosh into the purlieus of the suburbs. It may rank with Shakespeare's'sen-shore of Bohemia
After these triumphs in going wrong, the common slips of common men seem mere vulgarities. They lack the touch of "the mister. And yet what of the the majestic nominativus pendent, as grammarians call it, of the journalist who described how he came up the Thames in penny stenraboat and wrote "Forging abead, the sun set behind the chimney pots" After that I would pardon him for split infinitives, for saying "like he did f #
for ng he did. and even for writing, "his whereabouts are unknown.” which many careless sub-editors pass by as if whereabouts was a plural.
Yes. English is a difficult language. It may be easy for foreigners and children, but for a writer to touch u pen is like going over the top As one journalist said lately of some proposed course of action. a poor novelist by a little carelessness day "produce ✡ considerable amount chaos."
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An exchange of representatives of the Press between the United States and Great Britain was advocated on July 3rd by James Keeley. Chicago editor, as means of bringing about what might be termed a normal partnership," between the two countries. Within a week pub- licity is to
to be given to this proposition in England, Mr. Keeley announced
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banquet in London last summer attended by Bir George Riddle, Editor of the Town of the World and President of the British
Proprietors Association 1 ep Baid Mr. Kee ley, that leading English newspapers each send & representative to America to work in an American newspaper office, and that American newspapers send men to England to engage in newspaper work there
The men to be sent should be practi- cal newspaper men. The presence in a newspaper, office of a man from the other side, a man who is thoroughly familiar with American or British conditions, as the case may be, would tend to accuracy and the avoidance of
grotesque error, geographic and personal,
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