Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 6, Issue 71 (26 November 1892)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 6

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1892, Wellington

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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In our last issue we mentioned « The Oiled Feather » as one of the stories written by the late J. W. Kirton. This was an error. « The Oiled Feather » was written by the Rev. P. B. Power.

Admirers of « literary frivolties » will be interested in a clever palindrome recently inscribed in an album by the poet-composer Arrigo Bolto, giving a laconic characterisation of two of Shakespeare's heroes. It runs: ebro È otel, m'amleto È orbe. (Drunken is Othello, but Hamlet is mad.) We do not guarantee that we have the line quite accurate—in the form in which it is going the rounds, both the Italian and the palindrome are grievously mutilated.