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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.
