The Art Of Spelling

A little boy.exaniined before a maglstrate, waB asked to spell the sentence, "I am grateful for the beneflts I have received." He managed to spell lt correctly except the last word, which he wrote thus - "recieved." The magistrate proñounced thls to be "fatal," and sent the lad to school. Enforce the same rule impartlally all around and where would be half the world's celebrities? Take two ladies first. Sara Bernaardt cannot spell well, and one of our own most celebrated actresses does not ajways spell correctly. In a recent antograph letter of hers we flnd "oc:ured." Then Bismarck never could spell. He hlmself has confessed to "a lack of diligence at school," as a consequence of which hls letters contain many spelling errors. John Bright was anither statesman somewhat weak In the ame particular. Among ltterary men, a famous journalist is a conspicuously bad speller. A brief examination of his "copy" is srenerally sufflcient to discover an er:or. ín a short letter of nis occurs he curious blunder "popuier." But plenty of authors slip occasional-' y. Even Oliver Wendell Holmes makea i mistake in spelling the rather com.non word "indispensable," which he vrites "indispensible."