they should fancy themselves so far above us. If you WILL
fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you, depend
upon it; and if you and I, my dear friend, had Kotow performed before
us every day,--found people whenever we appeared grovelling in slavish
adoration, we should drop into the airs of superiority quite naturally,
and accept the greatness with which the world insisted upon endowing us.

Here is an instance, out of Lord L----'s travels, of that calm,
good-natured, undoubting way in which a great man accepts the homage of
his inferiors. After making some profound and ingenious remarks about
the town of Brussells, his lordship says:--'Staying some day at the
Hotel de Belle Vue, a greatly overrated establishment, and not nearly as
comfortable as the Hotel de France--I made acquaintance with Dr. L----,
the physician of the Mission. He was desirous of doing the honours of
the place to me, and he ordered for us a DINER EN GOURMAND at the chief
restaurateur's, maintaining it surpassed the Rocher at Paris. Six or
eight partook of the entertainment, and we all agreed it was infinitely
inferior to the Paris display, and much more extravagant. So much for
the copy.

And so much for the gentleman who gave the dinner. Dr. L----, desirous
to do his lordship 'the honour of the place,' feasts him with the
best victuals money can procure--and my lord finds the entertainment
extravagant and inferior. Extravagant! it was not extravagant to
HIM;--Inferior! Mr. L---- did his best to satisfy those noble jaws,
and my lord receives the entertainment, and dismisses the giver with
a rebuke. It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an
unsatisfactory backsheesh.

But how should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part
of our creed, and where our children are brought up to respect the
'Peerage' as the Englishman's second Bible?

CHAPTER IV--THE COURT CIRCULAR, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SNOBS

Example is the best of precepts; so let us begin with a true and
authentic story, showing how young aristocratic snobs are reared, and
how early their Snobbishness may be made to bloom. A beautiful and
fashionable lady--(pardon, gracious madam, that your story should
be made public; but it is so moral that it ought to be known to the
universal world)--told me that in her early youth she had a little
acquaintance, who is now indeed a beautiful and fashionable lady too.
In mentioning Miss Snobky, daughter of Sir Sno