It so happened in connection with "abasement" that the word "David" or "King David" occurred to me on one occasion in each of three out of the four trials; also that an accidental misreading, or perhaps the merely punning association of the words "a basement," brought up on all four occasions the image of the foundations of a house that the builders had begun upon.

Nevertheless, attention may be called to a curious misreading of history contained in the preface.

In the light of modern international law the action of England in sending troops through neutral Portuguese territory against a nation at peace with Portugal was based upon a flagrant misreading of a purely commercial treaty.

CATH., a pleasing misreading of the true text which every one, though for different reasons, will rejoice to read.

This may be a sad misreading of the history of the last fifty years, and a painfully prejudiced anticipation of the next fifty.