JOKES IN THE BIBLE.
Sir,-Your learned correspondent Gilbert J. Johnston, B.A., would have us accept his as the final authoritative word on translation from the Hebrew. We are in no position to criticise his assumption of this mantle-but it is possibly a pity that he has not devoted a little more time to the literature of what is (presumably) his native tongue. Alexander Pope, whom Mr. Johnston (B.A.) misquotes, actually wrote "A little learning is a dangerous thing"-and this surely Mr. Johnston (B.A.) should know. Or could it be that his knowledge of the English poets has been "culled from the shilling reprints of last century scholarships’? May I ask Mr. Johnston (B.A.) the next time he feels "called upon, to correct the rash statements" of anybody, to make sure that his own position cannot be criticised. It makes us suspect the B.A. and all. It even makes us wonder whether Gore can yet be considered one of the cultural centres of the world.
BOSWELL
(failed B.A.), (Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 4
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