5 OCTOBER 1889, Page 16

SCHOOLBOYS' BLUNDERS.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Here is a translation sent up yesterday in my fifth form :—" Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Pcena claudo :" " Rarely did a Carthaginian lady abandon her

criminal antecedent."—I am, Sir, &c., W.