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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3
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The joke of « Prometheus (unbound) » in a bookseller's catalogue is a very old one. The identical blunder re-appears in an article in the B. and C. Printer and Stationer, of the 31st January.
At the recent Victorian election, one of the candidates for Collingwood was Mr Joseph Symes, a « republican » lecturer, and the publisher of a notorious freethought paper. Neither of the two leading newspapers, the Argus and Age, would report his meetings, and the former journal declined to insert his advertisements. In so doing, the Argus was exercising an undoubted right; but unless the candidate's advertisements were libellous, seditious, profane, or otherwise objectionable, it was guilty of great injustice. It made a serious mistake, as it gave Mr Symes the opportunity of attributing his defeat to a press conspiracy against his constitutional rights.