TINTORET, in a picture which represents the “Israelites Gathering Manna in the Wilderness,” has armed the men with guns.

VERONESE (Paul), in his “Marriage Feast of Cana of Galilee,” has introduced among the guests several Benedictines.

WEST, president of the Royal Academy, has represented Paris the Phrygian in Roman costume.

WESTMINSTER HALL is full of absurdities.  Witness the following as specimens:—­

Sir Cloudesley Shovel is dressed in a Roman cuirass and sandals, but on his head is a full-bottomed wig of the eighteenth century.

The Duke of Buckingham is arrayed in the costume of a Roman emperor, and his duchess in the court dress of George I. period.

ERRORS OF AUTHORS, (See ANACHRONISMS.)

AKENSIDE.  He views the Ganges from Alpine heights.—­Pleasures of
Imagination.

ALLISON (Sir Archibald), says:  “Sir Peregine Pickle was one of the pall-bearers of the Duke of Wellington.”—­Life of Lord Castlereagh.

In his History of Europe, the phrase droit de timbre ("stamp duty”) he translates “timber duties.”

ARTICLES OF WAR FOR THE ARMY.  It is ordered “that every recruit shall have the 40th and 46th of the articles read to him.” (art. iii.).

The 40th article relates wholly to the misconduct of chaplains, and has no sort of concern with recruits.  Probably the 41st is meant, which is about mutiny and insubordination.

BROWNE (William) Apelles’ Curtain.  W. Browne says: 

  If ...  I set my pencil to Appelles table [painting]
  Or dare to draw his curtain.

Britannia’s Pastorals, ii. 2.

This curtain was not drawn by Apelles, but by Parrhasius, who lived a full century before Apelles.  The contest was between Zeuxis and Parrhasius.  The former exhibited a bunch of grapes which deceived the birds, and the latter a curtain which deceived the competitor.

BRUYSSEL (E. von) says:  “According to Homer, Achilles had a vulnerable heel.”  It is a vulgar error to attribute this myth to Homer.  The blind old bard nowhere says a word about it.  The story of dipping Achilles in the river Styx is altogether post-Homeric.

BYRON. Xerxes’ Ships.  Byron says that Xerxes looked on his “ships by thousands” off the coast of Sal’amis.  The entire number of sails were 1200; of these 400 were wrecked before the battle off the coast of Sepias, so that even supposing the whole of the rest were engaged, the number could not exceed 800.—­Isles of Greece.

The Isle Teos.  In the same poem he refers to “Teos” as one of the isles of Greece, but Teos is a maritime town on the coast of Ionia, in Asia Minor.

CERVANTES. Dorothea’s Father.  Dorothea represents herself as Queen of Micomicon, because both her father and mother were dead, but Don Quixote speaks of him to her as alive.—­Pt.  I. iv. 8.