25 MARCH 1893, Page 3

There are a good many excellent Latin scholars in the

United States ; but we should not wonder if they were at first a little perplexed by the message which the Pope has sent to the President through a phonograph. It is intended to express his Holiness's benevolence towards the whole peoph, of the Union ; but as it conveys the Pope's very voice, it will of course be repeated in the Italian way of pronouncing Latin, which is not, we fancy, the American method.