GENIUS CONQUERS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2876, 13 June 1882, Page 2

GENIUS CONQUERS.

A New York paper says that England can boast one editorial least who might bo trusted to run a country paper in the United. States. In his youth Sir Eichard Phillips edited and published a paper at Leicester called the “ Herald.” One day an article appeared in it headed “ Dutch Mail,”- and added to it was an announcement that it had arrived too late for translation, and so had to be set up and printed in the original. This wondrous article drove half the people of England crazy, and for years after the best Dutch scholars, squabbled and pored over it, without being- ablo to arrive at any idea of what it meant. This famous “ Dutch Mail" was in reality a column of “pie.” The story Sir Richard tells of the particular “ pie ’’ he had a whole hand in is this :—“ One evening, before One of our publications, my men and a boy overturned two or three columns of the paper in type. We had to get ready in ' some way for the coaches, which, at four in the morning, required four or five hundred papers. After every exertion, we weae short nearly a cofumn, but at this time there stood on the galleys a tempting column of pie. It suddenly struck me that this might be thought Dutch. I made up the column, overcome the scruples of the foreman, and so away the country edition went, with its philological puzzle, to worry the honest agricultural reader’s head. There, was plenty of time to set up a column of plain English for the local edition.” Sir Eichard tells of one whom he met in Nottingham, who thirty-four years ago preserved a copy of the Leicester “ Herald,” Hoping that some? day the letter would be explained.