PUBLIC OPINION.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 44, 16 August 1888, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

[Correspondence upon topics oi general interest in the district ia invited, but we are not responsible for the opinions ex pressed.] A REPLY. (To The Editor.) Sir,— One or two printers mistakes having crept into your columns, and subsequently criticised, I should like you to so far depart from journalistic custom as to accept the following corrections of typographical error,

An accusative case plural of the second declension ending in " us " was not supplied by me. The sentense so rendered by myself was "parva leves capiunt animos." Is this accusative, dative, or ablative plural 1

Again " casiigo," {as I supplied the verb) is not in the second person but first, and my " Old Friend " might go back to his Alma Mater, and learn something yet, if it were only the signification of the phrase, "Jeu de mots."

I used " habeam " in order that the- " potential mood " might be preserved to the sentence. Old Friend's mood is quite another affair ; it is decidedly Eedantic and flighty. But then genius egins where rules end. The borrowed plumage of the jackdaw is an unfortunate comparision, in so much as this similitude extends toward me the handle only of an edged tool : the blade is turned against my " Old Friend." To conclude " tautology " is a primary error every " baby " learns to guard against in composition. Old Friend should take lessons from an infant. For the rest the contempt he mentions is the only fitting course for me to persue, though I am inquisitive enough to ask, without hopes of any authentic reply, if my " Old Friend " and a kindred spirit, put their heads together, over a Latin primer all last Sunday and perhaps a Kttle of Monday, to concoct so terrible a denunciation 1 They say two heads are better than one, if only sheeps' heads. Apologising to you, sir, for my temerity.— l am, etc., W.DJ.P, Matamau, Aug. 15, 1888. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed.] _____