CHAPTER II.

BLUNDERS OF AUTHORS.

Goldsmith—­French memoir writers—­
Historians—­Napier’s bones—­Mr. Gladstone—­
Lord Macaulay—­Newspaper
writers--Critics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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BLUNDERS OF TRANSLATORS. 
          
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``Translators are traitors’’—­Amusing translations—­Translations of names—­ Cinderella—­``Oh that mine adversary had written a book’’—­Perversions of the true meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

CHAPTER IV.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BLUNDERS.

Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica—­Imaginary
authors--Faulty classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

CHAPTER V.

LISTS OF ERRATA.

Early use of errata—­Intentional blunders—­ Authors correct their books—­Ineffectual attempts to be immaculate—­Misprints never corrected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

CHAPTER VI.

MISPRINTS.

Misprints not always amusing—­A Dictionary of Misprints—­Blades’s Shakspere and Typography—­Upper and lower cases—­Stops—­Byron—­Wicked Bible—­Malherbe—­Coquilles—­Hood’s lines--Chaucer--Misplacement of type . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

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CHAPTER VII.

SCHOOLBOYS’ BLUNDERS.

Cleverness of these blunders—­
Etymological guesses—­English as she is
Taught—­Scriptural confusions—­
Musical blunders—­History and geography—­
How to question—­Professor
Oliver Lodge’s specimens of answers to
examination papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

CHAPTER VIII.

FOREIGNERS ENGLISH.

Exhibition English—­French Work on the
Societies of the World—­Hotel keepers’
English—­Barcelona Exhibition—­Paris
Exhibition of 1889—­How to learn English—­
Foreign Guides in so called English
—­Addition to God save the King—­
Shenstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

LITERARY BLUNDERS.

CHAPTER I.

BLUNDERS IN GENERAL.