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_English French_ (Vol. iii., p. 346.).--I take the liberty to inform C.
W. B., for the justification of my countrymen, as well as of his own,
that the _Guide to Amsterdam_ was probably written by a British subject
born between the tropics, and will point out, not by way of reprisals,
but as a curiosity of the same sort, an example of French-English to be
found in a book just published by Whittaker and Co., entitled _What's
What in 1851_? Let any one who understands French try to read the
article, p. 69., headed "Qu'êst que, qu'êst que la veritable luxure en
se promenant," and if he can guess at the meaning of the writer, no
foreign-English I ever met with will ever give him trouble.
G. L. KEPPER.
Amsterdam, May 10. 1851.
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_Deans, when styled Very Reverend_ (Vol. iii., p. 352.).--I cannot
answer this question, but I can supply a trace, if not a clue. I find in
a long series of old almanacks that the list of deans is invariably
given as _the Reverend_ the dean down to 1803 inclusive. I unluckily
have not those for the three next years, but in that for 1807 I find
"_the very Reverend_ the dean."