Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

CHAPTER II.

BLUNDERS OF AUTHORS.

Goldsmith—­French memoir writers—­
Historians—­Napier’s bones—­Mr. Gladstone—­
Lord Macaulay—­Newspaper
writers--Critics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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BLUNDERS OF TRANSLATORS. 
          
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``Translators are traitors’’—­Amusing translations—­Translations of names—­ Cinderella—­``Oh that mine adversary had written a book’’—­Perversions of the true meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

CHAPTER IV.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BLUNDERS.

Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica—­Imaginary
authors--Faulty classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

CHAPTER V.

LISTS OF ERRATA.

Early use of errata—­Intentional blunders—­ Authors correct their books—­Ineffectual attempts to be immaculate—­Misprints never corrected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

CHAPTER VI.

MISPRINTS.

Misprints not always amusing—­A Dictionary of Misprints—­Blades’s Shakspere and Typography—­Upper and lower cases—­Stops—­Byron—­Wicked Bible—­Malherbe—­Coquilles—­Hood’s lines--Chaucer--Misplacement of type . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

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CHAPTER VII.

SCHOOLBOYS’ BLUNDERS.

Cleverness of these blunders—­
Etymological guesses—­English as she is
Taught
—­Scriptural confusions—­
Musical blunders—­History and geography—­
How to question—­Professor
Oliver Lodge’s specimens of answers to
examination papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

CHAPTER VIII.

FOREIGNERS ENGLISH.

Exhibition English—­French Work on the
Societies of the World—­Hotel keepers’
English—­Barcelona Exhibition—­Paris
Exhibition of 1889—­How to learn English—­
Foreign Guides in so called English
—­Addition to God save the King—­
Shenstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

LITERARY BLUNDERS.

CHAPTER I.

BLUNDERS IN GENERAL.

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