This misplacing of types in cells would fail, however, to account for a multitude of blunders. The author, the compositor, and the ‘corrector of the press’ must be responsible on other grounds for ‘A silver medal given to a florist for _stealing_ geraniums;’ and for putting a wrong date on the tops of some of the pages of a newspaper—such as the _Daily News_ in one of its issues, which put ‘Monday July 18th’ on the top of one page, and ‘Tuesday July 18th’ on the top of all the others; and in a quite recent instance in the _Illustrated London News_, where on the top of one page Saturday was assigned to a date that certainly did not belong to it. At the Duke of Wellington’s funeral in 1852, Sir Peregrine Maitland was one of the pall-bearers. A statement appeared in some of the journals to the effect that when Sir Archibald Alison published the last volume of his _History of Europe_, the name of Sir Peregrine Maitland appeared as Sir Peregrine _Pickle_; and it was remarked that such a misprint could not have been otherwise than intentional, a poor attempt at a joke on the part of the compositor, or the ‘corrector.’ In the only copy which we have consulted, this absurdity does _not_ appear—a negative testimony so far as it goes in favour of the compositor. The wrong placing of words in lines, and lines in columns or pages, is an instance of careless ‘making-up,’ for which the compositor in the first place is clearly responsible, but which as certainly ought to be detected in the proof by the corrector. Nevertheless, the examples of this are manifold. Sometimes a whole line is transferred higher up or lower down the page than the proper place; and at others one single word makes an excursion to a line where no reader would look for it. We notice, for instance, in one of the magazines for September 1877 the word _see_ is used where it has no meaning; twelve lines lower down occurs the word _They_ where it has no meaning; but on transposing the two words, nonsense becomes converted into sense. A practical printer could tell us how such an error might arise in the technical management of his ‘composing-stick’ and ‘form;’ but to outsiders it is well-nigh incomprehensible.