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Show MAKE SOME VERY DROLL ERRORS In a Shakespeare-Bacon controversy the droll error of th "seacoaat of Bo- hernia" always turns up. But la It certain cer-tain that th writer of "The Winter' Tale" could make no defense? Dr. T bo mas Is not forgotten by careful student; his "Note leu on Shakespeare" contained th germ of various discoveries which hav been worked out tn later time. And h i stated positively that Bohemia bad a sea-coast sea-coast once. Swarming up from Mount Thabor, the Hussites conquered Pomer-anla Pomer-anla and th port of Setttn and Koetock. which they held for some years. Further, Fur-ther, be aaerted that Speed' map represents repre-sents them sttll in poaseesion : though published In 132, after his death. It waa certainly known many years before, and 8 bakes i ea re might hav seen It. At any rate, blunders aa grotesque have been committed by persons infinitely infi-nitely more responsible than an actor-dramatist. actor-dramatist. Perhaps th description of Bombay by th great Lord Clarendon ts the most pleasing example. When urging th advantage of a marrtajr between Charles 11. and Katharine of Braganaa upon the privy council he wrote that th alliance proposed to glv the English nation a free trad with Brasll In the Jfisat Indies. And forever to .annex .an-nex to the crown of Bnjrtand the laland of Bombay, with the towns and castle thereon, which ar within a very llttl distance of Braall. Apparently th privy council saw nothing noth-ing wrong, for when Francis Owyn, who Inherited th Clarendon manuscripts, published pub-lished them, aom fifty years later, he Included this document, without any comment of his own or of that august body. Probably Charles himself was not better Informed when be granted tha East India company a perpetual leas of th Island for U yarty. Among the archive at Bamanoaa la confidential dispatch from aom Import ' tant personage, recommending Waterford aa a spot where th soldiers of th Armada Ar-mada might disembark to conquer England. Eng-land. Among other advantage It waa "only twelve roues from london," ramp )L waa not mora skilled In geography than In .other matter, but b, suspected an error here, and wrote on the margin: "1 don't understand about thla Water-ford Water-ford twelve mile, from London. Make Inquiry." On, of his successors, Charles II., had the vaguest Idea, ahout the geography of hie own empire. It la reported re-ported on excellent authority that when the French took Mona. the great town and fortress of Flanders, ha congratulated congratu-lated the Marquis d'Harcourt upon a vie-' tory over tbe English heretic. Flanders Flan-ders wsa Spanish territory at the date. Funny slorlca are current of high official. of-ficial. In England at the present day. Grant Duff answers for one. School boy, ought to know that there la a town on the Persian gulf called Bushliw, one rest, and still of high Importance etrate- flcally. A personage waa aent there from ndla on diplomatic buslneaa. In due time be forwarded th, Itema of his ex rense at Bus hire to th, foreign of floe, along with othera Incurred. The amount was transmitted to htm with these latter deducted. On Inquiry be was told that the foreign office could not raoofnlaa "bus h,May on, dar, to Impute Ignorance) to Charles Darwlnt Certainly he waa tha Arat ot laugh If. In after years, he recollected recol-lected advising Sir Joseph Hooker to writ, to "Wlen," . that unknown pbvo, where they publish so many books. Where la It by the weyr" When hla fame waa already worldwide, Darwin did not know mit Wlen Is Vienna Philadelphia Ledger. |