ll, it is
still so far exclusive, that what Madame Roland calls
_l'universelle mediocrite_, gains no admission there."

Again:--

"I happened one night at Gen. La Fayette's to say that I should
remain at home on the following morning, and the information
brought us a numerous circle of morning visitors; others
dropped in by chance, and some by appointment. From twelve till
four, my little salon was a congress composed of the
representatives of every vocation of arts, letters, science,
_bon ton_," (the Congress of Vienna was nothing to this,) "and
philosophy, in which, as in the Italian opera-boxes of Milan
and Naples, the comers and goers succeeded each other, as the
narrow limits of the space required that the earliest visitor
should make room for the last arrival."

We might fill pages with similar specimens of her modesty, but we must
proceed.

The notes and cards being all despatched, authentic intelligence is at
length diffused throughout Paris of her arrival, and such a commotion is
forthwith excited as had never been seen even in that city of
commotions, since the time the Giraffe made her entree into it, and said
to the gaping multitude, "_Mes amis, il n'y a qu'une bete de plus._"
Perhaps the sensation might be excepted which was created by "Messieurs
les Osages," the American deputation whose "France" has not yet, we
believe, appeared in either hemisphere. The Rue de Rivoli was instantly
crowded with "old friends" and "intimate acquaintances," _ne plus
ultras_ included, besides various others anxious for the honour of an
introduction, all striving who should get first into the "_Hotel de la
Terrasse_;" and such was the press of visits, dinner-parties, suppers,
balls, &c. &c. that for a period her Ladyship could not, as she says,
"find leisure to register a single impression for her own amusement, or
haply for that of a world, which, it must be allowed, is not very
difficult to amuse." In this sentiment we request leave, before going
further, to record our unqualified concurrence, and also to state, that
we know of no one from whom it could proceed with more propriety and
weight than from Miladi. It has been, doubtless, expressed before, by
various other book-makers, but never, we feel confident, by one whose
career affords fuller evidence of its correctness, or who could adduce
more forcible proofs in support of it, should they be required. I