G)_ Under "Shanghai" we find on page 459 a formula relative to the import of bar silver, 0.096 fine, from London. 'The problem is set forth thus: "Bar silver, 0,096, quoted 20d, per ounce' standard, in Shanghai 110". The figure of never applied to bar sil-16 fine; the correct Hgure is ianghai fuels. Ie a fore ingredients which cet, it will not 1 operation Taken altogether we should strong= advise that the chapter on China should be entirely re-written when the next edition is prepared, to be in harmony with the remainder of the excellent information making up an otherwise invaluable work, Kann There is something familiar port of the Director of Staff at Headquarters that spelling ix still the weak point of the modern officer. Fact and fiction have agreed in suggesting that pedantic fidelity to the literary graces has rarely been a foible of the profession of arms. The modern variation operat and "ordeley" may have inherited that little failing from Captain Rawdon Crawley, of whom his affectionate aunt remarked,—"Raw-don's letters are full of bad spelling and dashes and bad grammar." A little farther back 18th century writers were very fond of making fun of the military contempt for scholarly acquirements. No. one commends the dons who tittered at 'a Wellingtonian false quantity, but Swift's captain represents, one supposes, a type of his day with his assurance that 'A. scholard when first from hia college broke loose.
Can hardly tell how to ery "Bob" to a goose.
Your Noveds, ind Bluturchs, and Omurs and stuff.
By George, they don't signify this pinch of snuff!
To give a young gentleman right education The army's the only good scheat in the nation; My schoolmaster called me a dunce and a fool But at cuffs I was always the cock of the school.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.