30 MARCH 1918, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

propos of mistranslations, is chacun a son goat—"every- body has the gout "—too much of a chestnut for you to reproduce? I have seen myself "Put down the blinds, "Baisez les areugles." Perhaps in the same connexion one might refer to the unfortunate husband who cried "Je t'adore " to his wife, and was greeted with the retort "Shut it yourself."—I am, Sir, &c.,

E. M. PfiICHtnn.