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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 41, 9 August 1888, Page 2

. Sik,— Allow me, a constant reader, to congratulate you on the high literary skill and erudition displayed in your columns, and notably in a letter published in your issue of the 7th inst. The familiarity with the classics, with the correct spelling and application thereof, supply intrinsic evidence of the writers ability to obtain, the highest collegiate honors in (if not already a member of) any of our most noted universities. In fact, the closeness of his logic, the acuteness of his deductions, and the total absence of personal animus, are so evident that even the victim of his effusion, so far from feeling aggrieved, can # justly congratulate himself in calling into existence such a gem of literary composition. Again I cannot refrain from admiring the manner in which he inveighs a°ainst anonymous correspondents (myself included) and guards against any such imputation being placed to his credit by not only subscribing his present name in full, but by adding sundry alias's under which he has hitherto concealed his identity. But I would (though not a schoolmaster) venture to. give your correspondent a hint for guidance in future, that though perfectly at home in old Latin he must be wofully ignorant of modern French or he would not have used the word " jieU" instead of alias (perhaps the latter savours too much of the Police Courts for polite ears). The word w nee " I have always understood to mean "born," and in connection with proper names seldom appears unless on wedding cards, or in reference to ladies who are sometimes privileged to change their names. There is an old proverb, "It is a wise child knows its own father. "and if your correspondent has used this word knowingly, to remove any possible uncertainty as to his individualty I beg to apologise to him beforehand for imputing his use of it to ignorance. In conclusion I would ask your correspondent, W. D. Jones Pritchard (Esq.), to remember the application of the proverb quoted by himself, anent "glass houses," and also to bear in mind another, "The mills of the Gods grind slowly but surely," and that many a cat's paw has lived to learn that in other cases than newspaper correspondence, a " purser's " name is useful to cover over a shady record.-— I am, etc., An old friend of 'DickSwivelleu's.

SiR ? — As I (with very many more in this district) am not sufficiently well educated tO ( understand the satirical phrases in W. D. Jones Pi itchard's letter, might I request that gentleman through your columns to supply us with a literal translation oi his, I presume, quotations, etc.— lam, etc., Firewood. Makotuku, August Bth.