DOI Heft:
December 17, 1864
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0251
December 17, 1864.1 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
245
THE FORTHCOMING PANTOMIME.
Astonished, Friend. “Why!—Why ! What on Earth are these?”
Manager. “These? Oh! These are Fairies I/”
SEVERE SCHOLARSHIP.
In the “ Table Talk ” of the Guardian there arc some
remarks on “ Bad Latin,” exemplified by instances quoted
from certain contemporaries as blunders, some of which
are evidently misprints, others slips of the pen that occurred
in hasty composition, and one is not exactly a case of Latin
that can be properly called bad. It is this :—
“ The editor of the Saturday Review seems either to ignore, or at
least to forget his Horace, to judge from the following remark : ‘ We
may just notice in passing, that if Mr. Clay’s shelf had contained
a Latin dictionary, he might baYe known better than to use cum-
i culuin for a chariot. The courteous Cicero would hare been dread-
fully puzzled at such an expression as driving a curriculum.’ Cicero
may or may not have used ‘ curriculum ’ in this sense, but at all
events Horace does, in the very first Ode of his very first Book—
‘ Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse jurat.’ ”
Take an Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary down from your
shelf, turn out the word curriculum, and you will find it
defined as “a place to run in the lists,” and also “as a cart
or chariot.” Next, take down a Delphin Horace, if you
have one, and read the note to the first Ode, which is as
follows -.—
“ Curriculo'] Pro curru, vel ipso cursu, vel etiam loco in quo decur-
ritur, accipitvr isla vox.”
The Saturday Review, by the foregoing authority, is
justified in assigning another meaning to curriculum than
that given thereto by Mil. Clay. The same authority,
which is not esteemed worthless, may be held to justify
Mr. Clay in using that word in a sense different from
that in which the Saturday Review understands it. But we
will not hear the Saturday Review accused of bad Latin.
Have we not had rather too much, lately, of criticism
on errors of quotation which are plainly clerical, errors
which an average schoolboy would not commit plodding
over bis exercise, but which the profoundest scholar might
find on coming to revise an article which he had written
in haste P Somewhat too much, perhaps, of criticisms
conceived by accurate, attentive, little minds, that can
imagine no cause of error but ignorance; criticisms con-
ceived in the spirit of a stupid but sarcastic school-usher.
TO AUCTIONEERS.
The Regulations regarding Sales are not to be found
in any Bye Laws.
ORACULAR.
The brilliant success which our friend, the Morning Advertiser, has
achieved in classical fields, and the memories of Nebuchadnezzar, the
| King of the Jews, of marvellous inscriptions, and of tributes to our
; friend’s interpretations of prophecy, justly entitle it to be heard touch-
ing Lord Derby’s Homer. Without losing time, as more timid critics
have done, our friend promptly taps the new cask of Greek wine, and
pronounces it flat. Whether “earth and time” will “confirm the
stern decree,” remains to be seen. In the meantime, might we, in all
humility, ask what is meant by the following mysterious passage in the
Advertiser''s criticism ?—
“ With such expedients as these, which we can all recal as the agonised resorts
of our youthful minds striving against the evident purpose of Providence to he poetical
at college, Earl Derby,” &c.
As a classical, poetical, and theological authority, the Advertiser has
a right to be listened to as one listens to the thunder; but it is permit-
ted to ask the meaning of an oracle, and this utterance is ultra-Delphic.
The Wind-Pipe.
Pipes, say anti-tobacconists, are all more or less injurious. Some
Sipes, such as wooden pipes, have, it is pretended, an asthmatical ten-
ency, affecting the breath more than others. Among these must be
reckoned the sailors’ favourite pipe, the hornpipe, when indulged in too
violently.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
In the absence of all Sporting events at Epsom during the Winter,
there will be a weekly review, all in the Downs, of the celebrated old
Epsom Salts.
The most Notorious Times'- Servers oe the Present Day.—
Messrs. W. II. Smith and Co., of the Strand, and nearly every
railway stall in the kingdom.
WISE PRECAUTION.
245
THE FORTHCOMING PANTOMIME.
Astonished, Friend. “Why!—Why ! What on Earth are these?”
Manager. “These? Oh! These are Fairies I/”
SEVERE SCHOLARSHIP.
In the “ Table Talk ” of the Guardian there arc some
remarks on “ Bad Latin,” exemplified by instances quoted
from certain contemporaries as blunders, some of which
are evidently misprints, others slips of the pen that occurred
in hasty composition, and one is not exactly a case of Latin
that can be properly called bad. It is this :—
“ The editor of the Saturday Review seems either to ignore, or at
least to forget his Horace, to judge from the following remark : ‘ We
may just notice in passing, that if Mr. Clay’s shelf had contained
a Latin dictionary, he might baYe known better than to use cum-
i culuin for a chariot. The courteous Cicero would hare been dread-
fully puzzled at such an expression as driving a curriculum.’ Cicero
may or may not have used ‘ curriculum ’ in this sense, but at all
events Horace does, in the very first Ode of his very first Book—
‘ Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse jurat.’ ”
Take an Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary down from your
shelf, turn out the word curriculum, and you will find it
defined as “a place to run in the lists,” and also “as a cart
or chariot.” Next, take down a Delphin Horace, if you
have one, and read the note to the first Ode, which is as
follows -.—
“ Curriculo'] Pro curru, vel ipso cursu, vel etiam loco in quo decur-
ritur, accipitvr isla vox.”
The Saturday Review, by the foregoing authority, is
justified in assigning another meaning to curriculum than
that given thereto by Mil. Clay. The same authority,
which is not esteemed worthless, may be held to justify
Mr. Clay in using that word in a sense different from
that in which the Saturday Review understands it. But we
will not hear the Saturday Review accused of bad Latin.
Have we not had rather too much, lately, of criticism
on errors of quotation which are plainly clerical, errors
which an average schoolboy would not commit plodding
over bis exercise, but which the profoundest scholar might
find on coming to revise an article which he had written
in haste P Somewhat too much, perhaps, of criticisms
conceived by accurate, attentive, little minds, that can
imagine no cause of error but ignorance; criticisms con-
ceived in the spirit of a stupid but sarcastic school-usher.
TO AUCTIONEERS.
The Regulations regarding Sales are not to be found
in any Bye Laws.
ORACULAR.
The brilliant success which our friend, the Morning Advertiser, has
achieved in classical fields, and the memories of Nebuchadnezzar, the
| King of the Jews, of marvellous inscriptions, and of tributes to our
; friend’s interpretations of prophecy, justly entitle it to be heard touch-
ing Lord Derby’s Homer. Without losing time, as more timid critics
have done, our friend promptly taps the new cask of Greek wine, and
pronounces it flat. Whether “earth and time” will “confirm the
stern decree,” remains to be seen. In the meantime, might we, in all
humility, ask what is meant by the following mysterious passage in the
Advertiser''s criticism ?—
“ With such expedients as these, which we can all recal as the agonised resorts
of our youthful minds striving against the evident purpose of Providence to he poetical
at college, Earl Derby,” &c.
As a classical, poetical, and theological authority, the Advertiser has
a right to be listened to as one listens to the thunder; but it is permit-
ted to ask the meaning of an oracle, and this utterance is ultra-Delphic.
The Wind-Pipe.
Pipes, say anti-tobacconists, are all more or less injurious. Some
Sipes, such as wooden pipes, have, it is pretended, an asthmatical ten-
ency, affecting the breath more than others. Among these must be
reckoned the sailors’ favourite pipe, the hornpipe, when indulged in too
violently.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
In the absence of all Sporting events at Epsom during the Winter,
there will be a weekly review, all in the Downs, of the celebrated old
Epsom Salts.
The most Notorious Times'- Servers oe the Present Day.—
Messrs. W. II. Smith and Co., of the Strand, and nearly every
railway stall in the kingdom.
WISE PRECAUTION.