" Angaria."
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Before you close this correspondence on Angdria, may I quote the classic story of "Neer ed-din Hoja," the Turk of Anadalou ? The Hoja......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator.")
SIR,—Is it too late for me to add to the tale of " howlers "? These have just relieved the tedium of marking terminal examination papers. Vacuus viator — " The absent-minded......
Translation "howlers."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I add a " translation ` howler " to those given by your correspondents "J." and " F. A. A."? At a large school in the South-West of......
Poetry.
THE BOOKMAN'S TREASURE. flowers° before his shelves with pensive look; " How oft," he mused, " his glances o'er them strayed, He who'd forget his dinner for a book, My son,......
[to The Editor Op The " Spectator.") Sir,—in Case You
may care to publish it, I send you the following "howler," perpetrated in my own family—a decidedly free trans- lation. "Hes souliers me blessent " was translated " My soldiers......
Books.
WAR ACCORDING TO CLATJSEWITZ.* MAJOR-GENERAL PILCUER has been well inspired in preparing his very readable summary of the first volume of Clausewitz, On War, for the benefit of......
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name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the......
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