27 APRIL 1907, Page 32

MIXED METAPHORS.

[TO TUX EDITOR OP TUX .5PIL0TATOR.1

think your readers may be interested in a mixed metaphor which recently appeared in the Egyptian Standard, the paper of Moustapha Kernel Pasha. That paper says that if the Whig element were dropped out of the Cabinet, "a truly liberal wind might become the guiding light of the Foreign Office, and the introduction of a Home-Rule Bill for Ireland might mean the beginning of justice for Egypt." I think the idea of a wind being a guiding light is an example of mixed metaphor which it will be bard to beat —I am,