17 AUGUST 1918, Page 12

"HOWLERS."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sie,—.4 propos of the " howlers" which you have recently published, I remember my uncle, the lute Mr. F. E. Kitchener, who spent the greater part of his life as a schoolmaster, telling me that the finest example he had met with was the following:— Subject: Elementary dynamics. Question: "Explain how it is that a ship can sail against the wind." Answer: "Action and Reaction are equal and opposite. Therefore, If the wind blows one way, the ship will sail the other."—I am, Sir, &c.,