Literary Blunders

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Henry B. Wheatley. Literary Blunders

Literary Blunders

Table of Contents

CHAPTER III

BLUNDERS OF TRANSLATORS

CHAPTER IV

BIBLIOGRAPEIICAL BLUNDERS

CHAPTER V

LISTS OF ERRATA

CHAPTER VI

MISPRINTS

CHAPTER VIL

SCHOOLBOYS' BLUNDERS

1880.—ACOUSTICS, LIGHT AND HEAT PAPER

CHAPTER VIII

FOREIGNERS' ENGLISH

``BASIL ``JA. SINGESEM

INDEX

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Henry B. Wheatley

A Chapter in the "History of Human Error"

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The title of the old farce Hit or Miss was turned into Frapp ou Mademoiselle, and the Independent Whig into La Perruque Indpendante.

In a late number of the Literary World the editor, after alluding to the French translator of Sir Walter Scott who turned ``a sticket minister'' into ``le ministre assassin,'' gives from the Bibliothque Universelle the extraordinary translation of the title of Mr. Barrie's comedy, Walker, London, as Londres qui se promne.

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