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complexions and of bright and cheerful faces among the male
part of the creation is very striking. They are gaunt, sallow,
cadaverous looking creatures; their general, far from
prepossessing, appearance, in no way improved by the habit of
wearing long, straight hair, combed entirely off the face, the
bare throat, the never absent 'quid,' and that abominably nasty
habit of constant expectoration."

And this trash is from one of the most reputable periodicals published
in London--the one of all most especially addressed to _gentlemen_.

In the next number of his "Reminiscences" the author promises a sketch
of the city of New-York, for which his authority will probably be Mrs.
Trolloppe, Mr. Joseph Miller, and the last pick-pocket who went home to
London.

* * * * *

The "Peace Congress," in which we have most faith--the only one that is
likely to exert any very desirable influence, is that to assemble next
year in Hyde Park. This will be a display of works rather than one of
words; and _apropos_ of its lingual character, which will show very
conclusively that as yet "all the nations of the earth" are not "as one
people," we find in _The Leader_ this paragraph:

"The Exhibition of 1851, seems to promise a whole literature of its own.
Journals are already established for the record of its proceedings.
Useful information will be at a premium--unless there should happen to
be a "glut;" while in the shape of translations and dialogue-books,
every facility will be offered to foreigners. What a Babel it will be!
How the English ear will be rasped by Slavonic and Teutonic gutturals,
or distended by the breadth of Southern vowels. It will be a marvel if
this incursion of barbarians do not very much affect the purity of our
own tongue, and damage the tender susceptibility of the London ear,
already so delicate that when an actor says--as it _sometimes_
happens--"_Donnar Elvirar_ is coming," the whole audience rises in a
mass to protest against the outrages on taste. We are told the Athenians
were also merciless critics in such matters. Nay, there is a famous
anecdote perpetually cited as an illustration of Athenian delicacy in
matters of pronunciation, that Theophrastus was known to be a foreigner
even by a herbseller. People who wonder at every thing recorded of the
Greeks, will regard us probably as reckless iconoclasts if we break that
by a stone flung fro