21 SEPTEMBER 1889, Page 15

SCHOOL-BOYS' BLUNDERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:]

SIR,—You will be inundated with specimens of ingenious translations. Is this one good enough for insertion ? "Own grano salis ;" "With a corn thou da.ncest." Poor lad ! Probably he translated feelingly, having suffered tortures under the dancing-master.—I am, Sir, &c.,