d '_Foreigners
in America_.' The writer touches with a trenchant pen upon 'the social
abuses which the first families in the metropolis tolerate at the hands of
disreputable exquisites and titled rascals.' Nervous words, but not
undeserved. 'How much more rapidly a fashionable foreigner will move in
the high road of preferment than one of your thinking, feeling, complex
persons, in whom honor, integrity and reason make such a pother that no
step can be taken without consulting them!' . . . WE have indulged in one
or two sonorous guffaws, and several of Mr. COOPER's 'silent laughs,' over
the following 'palpable hit' from a New-Jersey journal: 'A
talking-machine,' says the 'Newton Herald,' 'which speaks passable French,
capital English, and choice Italian, is now to be seen at New-York. It is
made of wood, brass, and gum-elastic.' 'A similar machine,' adds the
'Sussex Register,' 'compounded of buckram, brass, and soap-locks, and
familiarly called 'GREEN JOSEY,' is to be seen in Newton, at the Herald
office; though we cannot say that it speaks _any_ language 'passably.' It
frequently makes the attempt, however, and here is one of its last
'essays:' 'Gov. GILMER is understood to have had a standing CART-BALANCE
for any appointment under the present administration, which he might
choose to _except_; but he will not _except_ an appointment of any kind
under this administration.' Isn't that 'standing _cart-balance_' rich? The
usual phrase _carte-blanche_, which in the sentence quoted might be
rendered by 'unconditional offer,' is transmogrified into _cart-balance_!
Among all the blunders perpetrated by conceited ignorance in its attempts
to _parley-voo_, this stands unequalled. We have seen _hic jacet_ turned
into _his jacket_, in an obituary; that was a trifle; but CART-BALANCE
overcomes our gravity!' So it does ours. The anecdote, to adopt the
reading of a kindred accomplished linguist whom we wot of, is a 'capital
_jesus-de-sprit!_' . . . THE beginning of 'L.'s '_Stanzas_' is by no means
unpromising; but what a 'lame and impotent conclusion!'

'Lord HOWE he went out,
And LORD! how he came in!'

The third verse would do credit to STREET, so graphic and poetical are the
rural images introduced; but it runs into the fourth, a stanza 'most
tolerable, and not to be endured.' Our young friend may be assured that we
shall _not_ 'regard with indifference' any thing from his pen that may
fulfil the _promise_ of the lines to wh