shall appear in the works which you publish,
never send well-written copy to the
printer, for in that case the manuscript is
given to young apprentices, who make a
thousand errors; while, on the other hand,
that which is difficult to read is dealt with
by the master-printers.'' It is also related
that the late eminent Arabic scholar, Mr.
E. W. Lane, who wrote a particularly good
hand, asked his printer how it was that
there were always so many errors in his
proofs. He was answered that such clear
writing was always given to the boys, as
experienced compositors could not be
spared for it. The late Dean Hook held
to this opinion, for when he was asked to
allow a sermon to be copied out neatly for
the press, he answered that if it were to
be printed he would prefer to write it
out himself as badly as he could. This
practice, if it ever existed, we are told by
experienced printers does not exist now.

It must, one would think, have been
the badness of the ``copy'' that induced
the compositors to turn ``the nature and