7 SEPTEMBER 1889, Page 15

STUDENTS' BLUNDERS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following fine specimen of a schoolboy's blunder was produced by administering a passage from the "Moretum " to be done as an " unseen :"—" Et gravis in latnm demises cucurbita ventrem " came out : "And the pumpkin, which is unwholesome when consumed by stout persons." I think it would be difficult to find a prettier instance, whether you consider the diligence with which the boy had worked out the construe, or the adroitness with which he missed the point.—