r half did woman's shape retain.
And as she lay upon the dirty ground,
Her huge long tail her den all overspread,
Yet was in knots and many boughts [_folds_] up-wound,
Pointed with mortal sting.

Spenser, _Faery Queen_, i. 1 (1590).

ERROR OF ARTISTS, (See ANACHRONISMS).

ANGELO (_Michel_), in his great picture of the "Last Judgment" has
introduced Charon's bark.

BREUGHEL, the Dutch painter, in a picture of the "Wise Men of the
East" making their offerings to the infant Jesus, has represented
one of them dressed in a large white surplice, booted and spurred,
offering the model of a Dutch seventy-four to the infant.

ETTY has placed by the bedside of Holofernes a helmet of the period of
the seventeenth century.

MAZZOCHI (_Paulo_), in his "Symbolical Painting of the Four Elements,"
represents the sea by _fishes_, the earth by _moles_, fire by a
_salamander_, and air by a _camel_! Evidently he mistook the chameleon
(which traditionally lives on air) for a camel.

TINTORET, in a picture which represents the "Israelites Gathering
Manna in the Wilderness," has armed the men with guns.

VERONESE (_Paul_), in his "Marriage Feast of Cana of Galilee," has
introduced among the guests several Benedictines.

WEST, president of the Royal Academy, has represented Paris the
Phrygian in Roman costume.

WESTMINSTER HALL is full of absurdities. Witness the following as
specimens:--

Sir Cloudesley Shovel is dressed in a Roman cuirass and sandals, but
on his head is a full-bottomed wig of the eighteenth century.

The Duke of Buckingham is arrayed in the costume of a Roman emperor,
and his duchess in the court dress of George I. period.

ERRORS OF AUTHORS, (See ANACHRONISMS.)

AKENSIDE. He views the Ganges from _Alpine_ heights.--_Pleasures of
Imagination_.

ALLISON (_Sir Archibald_), says: "_Sir Peregine Pickle_ was one of the
pall-bearers of the Duke of Wellington."--_Life of Lord Castlereagh_.

In his _History of Europe_, the phrase _droit de timbre_ ("stamp
duty") he translates "timber duties."

ARTICLES OF WAR FOR THE ARMY. It is ordered "that every recruit shall
have the 40th and 46th of the articles read to him." (art. iii.).

The 40th article relates wholly to the misconduct of _chaplains_, and
has no sort of concern with recruits. Probably the 41st is meant,
which is about mutiny and insubordination.

BROWNE (_William_) _Apelles' Curtain_. W. Browne says:

If ... I set my pencil to Appelles ta