rtisan. The myriads of
foreigners who are coming to London, and are anxious to know about our
national manners, will purchase my book, and carry it to their distant
homes. So, Mr. Taylor, or Mr. Haberdasher, or Mr. Jeweller, how much
will you stand if I recommend you in my forthcoming novel?' You may make
a noble income in this way, Snooks.

"For instance, suppose it is an upholsterer. What more easy, what more
delightful, than the description of upholstery? As thus:--

"'Lady Emily was reclining on one of Down and Eider's voluptuous
ottomans, the only couch on which Belgravian beauty now reposes, when
Lord Bathershins entered, stepping noiselessly over one of Tomkins's
elastic Axminster carpets. "Good heavens, my lord!" she said--and the
lovely creature fainted. The Earl rushed to the mantel-piece, where he
saw a flacon of Otto's eau-de-Cologne, and,' &c.

"Or say it's a cheap furniture-shop, and it may be brought in just as
easily, as thus:--

"'We are poor, Eliza,' said Harry Hardhand, looking affectionately at
his wife, 'but we have enough, love, have we not, for our humble wants?
The rich and luxurious may go to Dillow's or Gobiggin's, but we can get
our rooms comfortably furnished at Timmonson's for 20L.' And putting
on her bonnet, and hanging affectionately on her husband, the stoker's
pretty bride tripped gayly to the well-known mart, where Timmonson,
within his usual affability, was ready to receive them.

"Then you might have a touch at the wine-merchant and purveyor. 'Where
did you get this delicious claret, or pate de fois gras, or what you
please?' said Count Blagowski to the gay young Sir Horace Swellmore. The
voluptuous Bart answered, 'At So-and-So's, or So-and-So's.' The answer
is obvious. You may furnish your cellar or your larder in this way.
Begad, Snooks! I lick my lips at the very idea.

"Then, as to tailors, milliners, bootmakers, &c., how easy to get a
word for them! Amranson, the tailor, waited upon Lord Paddington with
an assortment of his unrivalled waistcoats, or clad in that simple
but aristocratic style of which Schneider ALONE has the secret. Parvy
Newcome really looked like a gentleman, and though corpulent and
crooked, Schneider had managed to give him, &c. Don't you see what a
stroke of business you might do in this way.

"The shoemaker.--Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the
ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by
Chevillett of Bond Street could