AN EXPERIMENT IN CONSERVATIVE REVISION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In writing to thank you for your article on the "Experi went in Conservative Revision" in the Spectator of August 3rd, I am sure I speak for many of the " unlearned " as well as for myself. Insreading it a little instance occurred to me which illustrates your point—that "an extreme and minute accuracy is apt to destroy all the beauty of the render- ing, while it must often fail to achieve its immediate aim." On Easter Monday, when the second lesson was read, it was with a shock one heard the words "glittezing apparel" instead of the old familiar "shining garments" in describing the visit to the Sepulchre. The poetry had completely gone, and the voint of the passage had gone with the poetry. Any dweller on earth can wear "glittering apparel," but only a visitant from another world can appear to us in "shining garments."
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