Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . Journalists are more apt to write badlythau authors, for they write under should write belter than any one at least more distinctly, for the reasonthat there is no time to revi.^e their Greeley «nd ex-Governor Brosshave long had the palm for writing themost unreadable -copy that printersever had to handle. There is a specimenof Governor Bross writing in almost oflice in the country, preserved as An English Printers View ofBad Writing. News Printer, writing to the Cifj/Pr/M, makes the following remarks
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . Journalists are more apt to write badlythau authors, for they write under should write belter than any one at least more distinctly, for the reasonthat there is no time to revi.^e their Greeley «nd ex-Governor Brosshave long had the palm for writing themost unreadable -copy that printersever had to handle. There is a specimenof Governor Bross writing in almost oflice in the country, preserved as An English Printers View ofBad Writing. News Printer, writing to the Cifj/Pr/M, makes the following remarks upon-the alrove subject: The art of writing(if it can be so called) is, I regret to say,studied by very few but clerks, and, not- tn his earnings whether he has copywith which he can go straight along, ormanuscript which is written in such astyle as to cause him, every few minutes,to stop work, and endeavor to make outthe crabbed hieroglyphics of the so-calledwriting. Nor must the innocent readerof your note, or of these lines, imagine. C. M Robinson Propnetm of the Unton Business College, La Fayette, Ind withstandmg the immense amount ofwriting that is done for the Pittt and thelarge number of persons whose vocationconsists of putting their (and otherpeoples) thoughts and utterances to paper,the unfortunate compositors and ^ Prea» that eminent men or men clever m variousbranches of learning are any better thanother people Indeed to us poor slavesof the press, the rule seems to be thatthe more clever and talented a man is,say, as a writer, doctor, lawyer, theo-logiari, politician, &c., the worse and
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