‘Book of Blunders’ (1883)

[Book List Contents]

Contents.

• Preface, p.9.
• Chapter I. – Telegraphic Blunders, pp.13-15.
• Chapter II. – Blunders in Punctuation, pp.16-19.
• Chapter III. – Typographical Errors, pp.20-23.
• Chapter IV. – Mistakes in the ”Up-Tak’,” pp.24-27.
• Chapter V. – Reading Blunders and Slips of the Tongue, pp.27-29.
• Chapter VI. – Blundering Use of Words, pp.29-32.
• Chapter VII. – Blundering Use of Latin, Etc., pp.32-34.
• Chapter VIII. – Blunders from Ignorance, pp.35-42.
• Chapter IX. – Blunders in Composition, pp.43-45.
• Chapter X. – Jumbled Metaphors and Anachronisms, pp.46-48.
• Chapter XI. – Bulls, pp.49-53.
• Chapter XII. – Absence of Mind, pp.53-57.
• Chapter XIII. – Inadvertence and Forgetfulness, pp.57-59.
• Chapter XIV. – Misapprehensions, pp.59-63.
• Chapter XV. – A Traveller’s Mistake, pp.63-66.
• Chapter XVI. – How a Mistake got an Arab a Quiet Wife, pp.66-68.
• Chapter XVII. – Mistakes as to Person, pp.68-75.
• Chapter XVIII. – Mistaken Identity, pp.75-79.
• Chapter XIX. – The Yankee Cruiser’s Mistake, pp.79-81.
• Chapter XX. – A Doctor’s Mistake, pp.81-83.
• Chapter XXI. – Newspaper Reports, pp.83-89.
• Queer Epitaphs, pp.93-116.

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