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Sirs: Not that it is a matter of international importance, but merely that your excellent publication may, as always, correctly record the passing show-I call attention to two small errata in TIME, July 19, "Prairie Pantaloon" [p. 20] a) The father of Will Rogers was also of Cherokee descent, with about the same per cent of Indian blood, as the mother of the "Ambassador." No connection with Jingo, living or dead, b) Colonel Mulhall, not Muhlbach. POLLY CHU-WA-LOOKY...
...word "wine", so objectionable to sensitive souls of today, has been changed to "raisin-cake" in a new Bible published by Charles Scribner's Sons. To further the good work of Scriptural regeneration, the Uplift Societies must now get busy upon certain other errata in the texts which, though not so demoralizing as the wine passages, are nevertheless capable of improvement. Joseph's narrow escape from Mrs. Potiphar, for example, might be changed--indeed must be changed to read as follows...
...final remarks might be made on the book as it appears in print. We cannot help feeling that the contents merited considerably more care and pains than the publishers have spent upon it. The errata-a long list for so small a book-attones in some measure for the errors in type, but the inartistic make-up remains painfully apparent...