Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Typographical Exactness
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 15.4 (1894) 520-523 (at 523):
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In Brief Mention I often find myself adverting to the importance of typographical exactness. A man who makes remarks of that kind ought to abstain from article-writing and proof-reading. 'Un jour,' records that frivolous person, Jules Janin, Histoire de la littérature dramatique, III I72, 'on demandait à Geoffroy, pourquoi il ne faisait pas de comédies, lui qui les jugeait si bien? "Quand on donne le fouet aux autres, disait-il, il ne faut pas montrer son derrière."'Translation hardly seems necessary, but just in case:
One day someone asked Geoffroy why he didn't write comedies himself, since he was such a good critic of them. "When you wield the whip against others," he said, "you shouldn't expose your own backside."Id., "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 16.2 (1895) 259-263 (at 261):
[T]his Journal is almost always in mourning for typographical sins.Photograph of Gildersleeve:
