id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27583 Wilson, John The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson .txt text/plain 3934 210 74 In preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the The true proof-reader should not only be a practical printer, but he A writer on Punctuation, many years ago, said that, "Perhaps there never reader to understand more readily the true meaning of the writer. To illustrate this matter of rhetorical punctuation, let me instance the the rhetorical reading is, "No sir." The expression "The Oak, one day, the Reed." In the latter case, the reader makes _one day_ the name of Writers sometimes, and frequently proof-readers, blunder in the proper If authors and proof-readers are a few cases where printers and proof-readers disagree. art of spelling; but whether words meaning the same thing would be years ago, said, "Of making many books there is no end; and much study in the words of Channing, "_God be thanked for books!_" you and another man who reads the same book. ./cache/27583.txt ./txt/27583.txt