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it.

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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,

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overawe

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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

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its

finest

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ruthlessly dictator

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no help for

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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

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book

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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

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ol

and the expr< few such crimes can be laid

iply,

litor,

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King

tin;

When

composition detailed to each man, have

final h

mechanical department

various

and polished off,

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"turtle."

then hui

withoui are

mere i