Note and Comment.

As a companion piece to the specimens of weird translations which we recently printed, we offer the following examples of grotesque learning, as shown on the part of our English cousins. They are given on the authority-of the Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, who writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "I can vouch for the boba-fides of the following, which I have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died a month after each other.' 2. 'The Gordian knot was a very difficult knot which Nero tied, and by means of which he kept the empire of Rome in subjection."