The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-01

gentleman, whose attitude % forbearance
was most praiseworthy, that when for
ccnturios We have been accused Of mum
oiing our hocus pocus,' novel writer
should represent q pFieet az turning 20
the congregation and shouting. -Hoc cot
Corpus Meum, in a stentorian voice
explained that my attitude during
more services OF the mass than | could
count had been a happy combination Of
lhAttention with respect. and that had
acted on information receiv Ell like the
polio" hen they make q raid on betting
houf" No doubt the description Of the
service which ! had relied on wAa written
by a pagan suckled in a creed outworn'
He asked me why ] had not invested a
small sum IN Roman prayerbook and
! telt that ! had not leg TO stand upon
] had Ia confess to an egragious blunder,
h,It ! did what ! could to the passage in
the second edition And as an amende
honorable called the officiating priest
hIg. instead of fat. and thus. I hope,
aVerted the thunders of the Vatican.
However. a. ! always remember tho
oh ~ November and see no reason WHY
Gunpowder Treason should ever be for
got. presume ! am a British Protestant.
and not hound to know ANYTHING about
their ldoIatrous practices. NeNert helesa
with every allow anCa made. ! deserved
much wors~' treatment than | got |
" onder now have ! ground 81 complaint
I've old sea dogs for their trenchant
condemnation 10 the follow ing passage'
Her -hseta are white In the sun NJ she
tacks down channel against the west or
southwest Wind And then she leans over
IN the breeze and the white sheets catch
n mll - near YOU can hear the boom
click as II swings and the rattle Of he cord
s9e as ~ runs through the blocks and then
she gets her Nav on her and shoots on
"A Atau all
The ideas Of the old sea doRs like
those Of the young lady Of Portugal. were
no doubt more eNcusably than IN her
case excessively nautical so much 40
that thew denounced me for not knowing
they said | didn that sheets were not
sails. hut ropes. ANY unborn baby
% average shire wdneas that means TO
he Of English birth knows that And
n sheets are ropes. how can sails be sheetSp
Because sails never are ropes. So come
now
Perhaps IL is an inherited vice Of mind
NV father was a logic ian that made me
think that, however many vs. are x's.
there may ba rs that are not Us Any
how the press that claimed 10 represent
Neptune decided that I was not wise
Had my father been n s.a cook | might
have baen otherwise But | have no
nautical claims az all. even 10 the style
and title OF a Swab
Poetry had better he cautious how il
Uses common words az sea There are
two lines somewhere
Wrapped IN a Salcloih for a -hrnud.
His body sought the deep
And the poet may have been taken To
task for naval ignorance, Shrouds are
ropes and the wind whistles through
them passim. As far as | can make
ont shrouds are ropes made fast at each
end while sheets are permanently at
taChed at one. end only A. 60 the calling
Z Il -. I - 20.
with DRYDEN, who made the same error
according To Johnson.
Perhaps however. Glorious John was
mudde headed. like the present writer
4 reviewer ~ book % mine lately pub
llshed has told me so Candidly, and maybe
he's right,
only modeety forces me to think that
better proofs Of his statement than some
he cites might have been found on the
eight hundred odd pages he was review
ing This II the first one Mr.. DE Morgan
suppO~es that at some unnamed date the
House OF Lords made 10 wrong to marry
"A deceased wife's sister MY reference
of course was to Lord Lyndhursts mar
rage act. which in ISIS made II for the
first time an ecclesiastical offence for a
clergyman To- officiAts at such marriages
is Il credible that before that date
the parson who read the service over
Offenders ~ this sort always got on scot
frees Or did my critic only mean that
was putting the legislative saddle on the
wrong horse and that ] ought TO have
written his Ma jeetys Lords and Com
mons In Parliament assembled or some
such thing? But then he says dia-
tribes on the state 81 the law before 1897
are unsDea ka bly, weaTisome So he
ought to forgive brevIty on the readers
behalf
Another proof Of my mental condition
seems to H. that believe a marriage
would not he invalidaisd by a Previous
marriage with The brides illegitimate
sister. Deceased.
4 have serious doubts whs her either
of the above IL entitled to place among
my bnnders But my reviewer was 81
very cocksure about my nuddle headed
ness that he shall have the benefit Of the
doubt
Let me end up this rambling with
good ~ rong decisive, unmiztakable. I'M
qualified and for that matter extremely
CareIessI blu nder. On page | Of Volume
n IL nv last book Marianne il biting a
pencil There IL not a par icle % evidence
that she has taken "A peDs'ick Out Of her
moalt n thAS was there AZ the beginBing ~
.he chapter She never had both in her
mouth AZ once No no is clear
case for apology and correction. See
next impression pleas
AN this - course - in confidence be-
tween me and my readers. No one el-e
will sympaf hize.-