PROHIBITING THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. [To THE EDITOR OF T112 "
FRENCH] Sia,—Readers of the Daily Mail—and similar journals given to boiling over like milk—may be interested to hear that victorious Germany of the " seventies " indulged in precisely similar Chauvinistic gestes with regard to the French as the " Mailites " and others are now striking where the language of the beaten foe is concerned. For instance, I have seen the concert programme of an entertainment given before that sort of thing had worn off (at luckily it soon did) in which the attempt had been made to draw up the programme without so much as one French word. The achievement was fairly successful, though difficult to be understood even by the patriotic German. It is the equivalent for Piano Forte that stuck in my mind; it became dos Leise-Stark !—I am, Sir, &c.,
A. B.
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