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Show I SEACOAST OF BOHEMIA ... . In Hhttiipea.r-Bcnn ron tnvmy this droll error always turns up. But fa It rttn that tha writer of "Tha Winter's Tala" rould make no defsnaa? Dr. Thomas ta not forgot tan br careful ttirtnt: Ma "NoNiMa on hakwppii'' ontlnMl the rm of varlotia iffMlg which have been" workod out 1rr-lair tlm Ap4 ho ntufevi poaftfveiv that Ro rjmia ha 4 a roent once. tw rrn I n up from Mmint Thbor. the Huaatta ron-qtirrft ron-qtirrft pomeran1a and the porta of Stettin Stet-tin and Rout k. which thv held for aoma; rMrs. ftirther he aaaerta that ftneed'a man reorepenta them aa attll In noeaea- i ton; though piihliahed In 102. after hta death. It waa rertalnlv known manv veera hefore, and 8hakeapeare mtffht have aen It. I never felt tha rurloelty to look up thla reference mvself. hut aoma of the a ntleman who am ao deeply Interested In-terested In the matter ought to do ao. At anv rate, bltindera aa am'aoue. have heen rommltted hv persons Inflnltely more reainonplhle than an actordrarnatlst. Per-here Per-here the description of Pom he v bv the ! Urea t Lord risredon la the moat pleaa- ins example. When u rains; the advantaaea iof a niarrlaxe between Chartea II. and Katherlne of Rrajtansa upon the prlvv cotinrd he wrote that the alliance ''proposed ''pro-posed te aive the Knallsh nation a free trade with Brasi) slc n the fat Indies, In-dies, And forever to annex to the crown of Enaland tha Inland of Pomes Pom-es v. with the town and castles thereon, which are wtthln a varv llttla dt stance of Braill." Apparently the privy council aaw nothing, wrong, for when Francis Owvn. who inherited tha Ola red on mami ecrfpta. published them, aoma fifty years later, he Included this document, without any com Hint of hla own or that august hod v. Probably Chartea hi ma If waa not better Informed when he granted the Kast India company a perpetual leaea of tha Island for 19 vearly. Among' the archives at Himancas Is a Amfldentlal dispatch from some Important Impor-tant pereonsfe. recommending Waterford aa a snot whrs the soldier a of tla Armada Ar-mada might disembark to comnier Eng land. Among other advantages It as "only twelve miles from I-ondon." PhIMp II . wa a not more sk 1 1 led I n gene ra ph y than In other mattera, but he guspectd an error here, and wrote on the margin. 1 don't understand about this Wster-ford Wster-ford twelve mil's from Iyndon. Mjke Inqulrv." One of hla success. re. Charles IT., had the vaguest Ideas about the geog- raphv of bla own empire. It la reported, i on excellent authorltv. that when the Krench took Mons. the great town and fortreaa of Flanders, ha congratulated the Marquis de Harcnutt upon a victory over the Rnglish heretics. Flanders waa Hpantsh terrttorv at the data. Funnv storiea are current of high officials offi-cials in this realm at the present dav. Orsnd Puff answers for one. Hrhoolhovs ought to know that tbers Is a town on the Persian gulf railed Rushlre, once rest, and still of high import a nee strate gtcally. A personage waa sent there from j India on diplomatic bustnesa. In due ! time he forwarded the Items of hla ex-i ex-i pensea at Bush Ira to the foreign of nee. along with others Incurred. The amount was transmitted In him with theae latter deducted. On irmulrv he waa told that tha foreign offVe could not recognise hushlre. Mev I dare to Impute ignorance to Charles Parwlnt certainly he waa the first to laugh If. In after veers he recollected recol-lected advising titr Joaaph Hooker -to write to "Wlen." that unknown place where they publish ao many hooka Where la It. by (he wavT" When hta fame waa already worldwide Parwln did not know that W(en la Vienna. Frederick Boyle. In tha 1ondon Pall Mall Gaaette. |