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Show Ho Was Mistaken. An English literary man who visited this country to lecture frnnkly deolarqd that he cnine not expecting to find accurate ac-curate scholarship among Americans, especially on purely literary subjects, adding affably: I "You hayo been too busy and useful a nation In piaotlcal matters to give much tluio to the arts and graces of learning." During the dlnnor at which he made this remark he criticized Shtikospeare, sharply declaring that his metaphors 0 ten were absurd. ""As for example," he said," 'Sleep that knits up tho raveled rav-eled sleave of care.' How ridiculous to figure Bleep as knitting up a lorn sleovo o, a con 1 1" A young American sitting near him aid modottly: "I think the word is tint sleeve, but sleave. the thin fluff of a damaged web. It Is a technical expression ex-pression among woavers." "In the 8iates probably!" retorted the critic Irritably. "Shakespear never could have heard It. He mount sleeye." "I bel-vp," persisted ihe American gently, "the word Is printed sleuvo In all the old editions, It Is hot an American Ameri-can worn, but has been used for centuries cen-turies by weavers In Scotland and thb north of England." Tho visitor frowned and thon with English frankness aid, laughing: "Thank you; I was mistaken. Perhaps 1 am mistaken about other things and will be oorreoted before I leave your shores." YpulhVj Companion, |