auded by the New York Press as a
masterpiece of astuteness. He appears to be the only one of the party
who has an eye for the dark. She fancies she may know a more widely
awake in the abstract. But now, thanks to jubilant Journals and Homeric
laughter over the Continent, the secret is out, in so far as the
concurrents are all unmasked and exposed for the edification of the
American public. Dr. Bouthoin's eyebrows are up, Mr. Semhians disfigures
his name by greatly gaping. Shall they return to their Great Britain
indignant? Patriotism, with the sauce of a luxurious expedition at no
cost to the private purse, restrains them. Moreover, there is no sign of
any one of the others intending to quit the expedition; and Mr. Semhians
has done a marvel or two in the cricket-field: Old England looks up
where she can. What is painfully extraordinary to our couple, they find
in the frigid attitude of the Americans toward their 'common tongue';
together with the rumour of a design to despatch an American rival
emissary to Japan.

Nesta listened, inquired, commented, laughed; the ladies could not have
a doubt that she was interested and understood. She would have sketches
of scenes between Delphica and M. Falarique, with whom the young
Germania was cleverly ingenuous indeed--a seminary Celimene; and between
Delphica and M. Mytharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly
amoebaean of Homer. Dr. Gannius holds a trump card in his artless
daughter, conjecturally, for the establishment of the language of the
gutturals in the far East. He has now a suspicion, that the inventive M.
Falarique, melted down to sobriety by misfortune, may some day startle
their camp by the cast of more than a crow into it, and he is bent
on establishing alliances; frightens the supple Signor Jeridomani to
lingual fixity; eulogizes Football, with Dr. Bouthoin; and retracts, or
modifies, his dictum upon the English, that, 'masculine brawn they have
in their bodies, but muscle they have not in their feminine minds';
to exalt them, for a signally clean, if a dense, people: 'Amousia, not
Alousia, is their enemy:'--How, when we have the noblest crop of poets?
'You have never heartily embraced those aliens among you until you
learnt from us, that you might brag of them.'--Have they not endowed us
with the richest of languages? 'The words of which are used by you,
as old slippers, for puns.' Mr. Semhians has been superciliously
and ineffectively punning in forei