Tail Piece – April 3rd, 1953

April 1953

South Yorkshire Times, April 3rd, 1953

Tail Piece

“Now could you have done that?,’ said Delane the editor of “The Times” to the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, when Lord Derby’s translation of the “Iliad” came out.

“Perhaps not,” was the reply. “I have quite enough to do translating bishops.”