ERRORS OF AUTHORS 
 
 
living with his widowed mother, whose 
grandfather, Lord Fauntleroy, sends for 
and adopts him. The boy's sweetness of 
manners and nobility of nature conquer 
the old man's prejudices, and win him to 
sympathy and co-operation in his schemes 
for making the world better.-Frances 
Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy 
(1889). 
 
  Errol (Gilbert, earl of), lord high con- 
stable of Scotland.-Sir W. Scott, Fair 
Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.). 
 
  Error, a monster who lived in a den in 
"Wandering Wood," and woth whom the 
Red Cross Knight had hi.i first adventure. 
She had a brood of 1000 young ones of 
sundry shape, and these cubs crept into 
their mother's mouth when alarmed, as 
young kangaroos creep into their mother's 
pouch. The knight was nearly killed by 
the stench which issued from the foul 
fiend, but he succeeded in "rafting" her 
head off, whereupon the brood lapped up 
the blood, and burst with satiety. 
Half like a serpent horribly displayed, 
But th' other half did woman's shape retain. 
And as she lay upon the dirty ground, 
Her huge long tail her den all overspread, 
Yet was in knots and many boughts [folds] up- 
  wound, 
Pointed with mortal sting. 
            Spenser, Ea~ry Queen, i. 1 (1590). 
 
  Error of Artists, (See ANACHRONISMS). 
  ANGELO (Michel), in his great picture of 
the  "Last Judgment" has introduced 
Charon's bark. 
  BREUGHEL, the Dutch painter, in a 
picture of the " Wise Men of the East" 
making their offerings to the infant Jesus, 
has represented one of them dressed in a 
large white surplice, booted and spurred, 
offering the model of a Dutch seventy-four 
to the infant. 
 
 
  ETTY has placed by the bedside of Holo- 
fernes a helmet of the period of the seven- 
teenth century. 
  MAzzocmi (Paulo), in his "Symbolical 
Painting of the Four Elements," represents 
the sea by fishes, the earth by moles, fire 
by a salamander, and air by a camel! Evi- 
dently he mistook the chameleon (which 
traditionally lives on air) for a camel. 
  TINTORET, in a picture which represents 
the "Israelites Gathering Manna in the 
Wilderness," has armed the men with 
guns. 
  VERONESE (Paul), in his "Marriage Feast 
of Cana of Galilee," has introduced among 
the guests several Benedictines. 
  WEST, president of the Royal Academy, 
has represented Paris the Phrygian in 
Roman costume. 
  WESTMINSTER HALL is full of absurdities. 
Witness the following as specimens:- 
  Sir Cloudesley Shovel is dressed in a 
Roman cuirass and sandals, but on his 
head  is a full-bottomed  wig   of the 
eighteenth century. 
  The Duke of Buckingham is arrayed in 
the costume of a Roman emperor, and his 
duchess in the court dress of George I. 
period. 
 
  Errors of Authors, (See ANACHRON- 
ISMS.) 
  AKENSmE.     He   views the   Ganges 
from Alpine heights.-Pleasures of Imagi- 
nation. 
  ALLISON (Sir Archibald), says: "Sir 
Peregine Pickle was one of the pall-bearers 
of the Duke of Wellington."-Life of Lord 
Castlereagh. 
  In his History of Europe, the phrase 
droit de timbre (" stamp duty") he trans- 
lates "timber duties." 
  ARTICLES OF WAR FOR THE ARMY. It is 
ordered "that every recruit shall have the 
 
 
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