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PROFESSOR HIRO GLYPHIC wonders whether his tremendous essay on the vertebræ of Southern Assyria will be published in the next number of the North American Review; or whether the editor of that journal will show that terrible lack of discrimination which has induced him on previous occasions to return all emanations from the Professor's pen. Mr. Knickerbocker van Wyck, who has recently spent six weeks abroad, wonders (with secret delight) why so many people wish to know whether he is really an Englishman. Mr. Matthews Thayer wonders why certain "aristocratic snobs" should assume such a pained expression when he (Mr. Thayer) speaks of "gents" and "lady friends" and "guests at a banquet" and "young fellers" and "a party who is an intimate friend of mine," etc. Mr. Alfonso Delamater, theatrical manager, wonders whether Miss Alida Pas Seul will prove a “taking card on the road." Miss Blanche Rubilip wonders whether Harry Pegtop really meant what he said at the Crocuses last night, or whether it is the way of men to talk in that style. Mr. Hollis Holworthy wonders why that vulgar Bob Ulster always carries his arms akimbo, as if he had been in the habit of carrying bundles in the spaces thus unoccupied. Mr. Harry Pegtop wonders, when looking into the violet eyes of Miss Blanche Rubilip, why osculation. is not introduced as one of the conventional customs of society. Mr. Arlington Dunning, Sophomore, wonders why the deuce the Governor does n't send him a check. Mr. Windsor Thames wonders whether they play cricket all the time in another and a better world. Mr. Whistler Ruskin wonders whether the public really appreciate his efforts in behalf of art, as set forth in his great work on the "Perspective and Chiaroscuro of Ancient and Modern Refrigerators." Mr. Eastlake Dado wonders whether Walter Crane will go down to posterity as a representative of the ideal and æsthetic, or of the multiform and material. Mr. Scherzo Adagio wonders whether the admirers of "My Grandfather's Clock" and "Whoa, Emma" could not be persuaded, by pecuniary considerations, to congregate together and organize an expedition for the discovery of the North Pole. Mr. Charles Berkely wonders how the ancients got along without their tubs in the morning. And, lastly, the Lampoon wonders whether the financial outlook will be brighter during the present year. "WELL, PAT, YOU DID N'T COME TO THE 3 O'CLOCK TRAIN TO GET ME AS I TOLD YOU! "OH INDADE OI DID, SIR; BUT OI GOT THERE TOO LATE FOR THAT TRAIN, and so oi waited for the next one." BOOK NOTICE. (Accidentally omitted from a late number of the New York Nation.) The Origin of the Goo-goo Dialects of Central Africa. Translated from the German of Dr. G. F. PUPPENKLAPPSEN by H. DIGGORY REWTS, M. A., Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Arizona. Cincinnati: Half Calf Publishing Company. 1878. Royal 8vo. pp. cxv., 42. As we pointed out several years since (Nation, No. 327), the most important result of recent African explorations is likely to be the additional light thrown upon the origin of the various dialects of the race inhabiting the great basin of the Mthingembobesi. Knowing the vital interest taken by our readers in philological questions of an abstruse character, we have glanced at this volume, and are sorry to find it wholly untrustworthy. We are surprised to find (page 32) so eminent an authority as Dr. Puppenklappsen referring the expression Ah-goo to a root having its origin in a reflex action from an emotion arising in the stomach or alimentary apparatus. On page 40 Pwap is a generic, not specific form. There are many other equally important errors which we have noted, but which we do not think worth our while to enumerate. Many of these are undoubtedly due to the unpardonable carelessness or ignorance of the translator. Professor Rewts has, in a preface of 115 pages, given his opinions upon subjects about which he is totally incompetent to decide. The races of Central Africa were not, as stated on page cvi, created for the benefit of the New York Herald and London Telegraph. The designs of Divine Providence (see Nation, No. 444) were quite different. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the book is well arranged and admirably composed, and on the whole may be recommended both for its intense interest and inexhaustible inac curacy. |