SLIPS OF THE PEN.
AUTHORS' BLUNDERS. Someone has made a collection of " slips of the pen " made by well-known authors. Some of them are interesting. Wilkie Collins, in some mysterious fashion, makes the moon rise in the west ; Rider Haggard, in "King Solomon's Mines," contrives an eclipse of the new moon for the benefit of his readers; and Coleridge places a star between the horns of the crescent moon as filie rises in the east. Sha'kespere makes a clock strike in ancient Rome more\than 2000 years before clocks were invented. Robinson -Crusoe, deciding to abandon the wreck, removes his clothes in order to swim ashore ; the author makes him, in this condition, fill his pockets full of biscuits. Anthony Tr-ollope pictures Andy Scott "coming whistling up the street with a cigar in his mouth."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7436, 24 June 1902, Page 2
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134SLIPS OF THE PEN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7436, 24 June 1902, Page 2
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