Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1913 — Blunders in Book Titles. [ARTICLE]

Blunders in Book Titles.

There ie always, a crop of amusing mistakes concerning titles. Nothing so taxes the ingenuity of the bookseller as these phonetic endeavors to get at the name of a book. Who but a genius could conceive that by “Within or Outside the Pail” was meant "Beyond the Pale,” or that by “The Forgotten Cigar” a customer meant “For God and the Czar!” Even Mr. Bullen would be puzzled by a reference to “Screws of the Cash Lock” for “The Cruise of the Cachelot." Some other amusing blunders are “She Strips to Congo” for “She Stoops to Conquer,” “Hero of the Week” for ‘iHereward the Wake,” “Lined Pockets” for “Lying Prophets,” and “Bad Acre of Greece" for Baedeker’s “Greece.”