BORROWED FEATHERS.
[TO THE EDITOE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.] Sic, —Your morning contemporary aims at being classical, and in its efforts to assume borrowed plumes falls into some comical errors. Take, for instance, the following sentence out of its leading article to-day:—"Ancientmariners used to say that if you tried to steer from Scylla you would strike upon Charybdis and in dealing with this poor relief question the avoidance of one rock ahead often leads to wreck upon another before unnoticed." The simile is ridiculous unless it infers that Scylla and Charybdis were two rocks in the Strait of Messina. Of course everyone except the Herald knows that Scylla is a headland on the coast, round which there is a strong current, and that Charybdis is a whirlpool.—l am, &c, Andremon. Napier, March 29, 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3044, 29 March 1881, Page 2
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