ance for popular prejudice, must be admit- | ingly jealous of its dignity. Still, there is ted to contain a great deal. In fact, a young truth in the remark incidentally hazarded by man commencing the practice of physic, the sagacious Peter Peebles, when he is must be very singularly (we will not say describing the effect produced by the callhappily) constituted, if he does not find it ing on of his cause. "A' the best lawyers advisable to appear different in some res- in the house fleeing like eagles to the prey, pects from what he is. An extreme gravity some because they are in the cause, and of deportment is indispensable; and it is some because they want to be thought engenerally deemed expedient to wear spec-gaged-for there are tricks in other trades tacles. We have even heard it contended that a physician ought to begin, where others are content to leave off, by setting up a carriage and a wife. He ought not to go to church above once a quarter, and then be called out in the middle of the sermon or the communion service. He should ride or drive remarkable horses, so that bystanders may exclaim "There goes Dr. ;" and he should never attend, or never stay out a dinner-party until his reputation is firmly established; when his being seen mingling with the world will rather add to his fame, by making people wonder how he manages to do so many things at once. An oddness or surliness of manner has succeeded in two or three remarkable instances, but of late years has been rather overdone.

In the Standard of the 7th November, 1842, among the regular advertisements this will be found "Dr. Granville is returned for the season to his residence in Piccadilly from the Continent, and a professional tour in the north of England."

by selling muslins." A Barrister whose briefs are like angel's visits, must make the most of them when they do come, and gloss over the deficiency by a show of active occupation when they do not. Some contrive to keep up the delusion without any briefs at all, by a sedulous attendance in the Courts, or rather in the adjoining robingrooms and coffee-houses, though the initiat ed are well aware that this, intellectually considered, is a most deteriorating sort of idleness. The only allowable mode of advertising is one instanced by Lord Brougham-the publication or even announcement of a book, which has been sadly overdone, and now affords slight prospect of success. When Lord Loughborough first joined the English Bar, he solicited Mr. Strahan, the printer, to get him employed in city causes. The propriety of such con duct being doubted in Dr. Johnson's presence, he declared-"I should not solicit employment as a lawyer, not because I should think it wrong, but because I should This was probably intended for insertion disdain it." Professional etiquette is quite amongst the "fashionable movements," and clear upon the point; any canvassing for slipped into its actual position by mistake. business, particularly amongst attorneys, is At all events, it must not be regarded as a denounced under the denomination of hugprecedent. Physicians who wish to an- gery. As some of the rules adopted for the nounce their arrival, should do so indirectly, prevention of this offence have been ridiin the manner of the late Dr. Brodem. He culed on the score of undue fastidiouswas in the habit of exhibiting a magnificent ness, we are tempted to extract a defence gold snuff-box inlaid with diamonds (or of them by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, from Bristol stones), which (he said) was a pre- his admirable Essay on the Bar, recently sent from an Emperor. An advertisement republished in America amongst his Misappeared in a Salisbury paper, stating that cellaniesthe box had been left in the chaise which brought Dr. Brodem to the hotel, and offering five hundred guineas for its recovery. A friend calling on him just afterwards, began condoling with him on the loss of his box, when the doctor produced it from his pocket and requested the visitor to take a pinch. "Sare, it was no lose at all," (his accent and idiom were slightly foreign,) '-dis was one little drick to make you know I vas come." Surely Dr. Granville could have lost one of his foreign orders for the nonce, instead of scandalizing the whole College of Physicians by an advertisement. Members of the Bar are more under the surveillance of the body, which is exceed

an-gery.

"Men who take a cursory view of the profession, are liable to forget how peculiarly it is situ ated in relation to those who distribute its business. These are not the people at large; not even the factitious assemblage called the public; not scholars, nor readers, nor thinkers, nor adsimply Attorneys. In this class of men are, of miring audiences, nor sages of the law, but course, comprised infinite varieties of knowledge and of worth; many men of sound learning and honorable character; many who are tolerably honest and decorously dull; some who are acute and knavish; and more who are knavish without being acute. Respectable as is the station of attorneys, they are, as a body, greatly inferior to the Bar in education and endowments; and yet, on their opinion, without appeal, the fate of the members of the profession depends. It

"Au Gout des Parfums, Rue du Temple près Ste. Elizabeth.

"Boulangeat, Parfumeur du Prince de Galles, à Londres, tient Magazin de tout ce qui concerne la Parfumerie, la Ganterie, juste prix à Paris." "On the Perfume's Taste, Temple Street, near St. Elizabeth.

"Boulangeat, Perfumer from the Prince of Wales, at London, keep a Magazine, from all what the whole perfumerie relate, at the first price."

can scarcely be matter of surprise that they do not always perceive, as by intuition, the accurate thinking, the delicate satire, the playful fancy or the lucid eloquence, which have charmed a domestic circle, and obtained the applause of a college, even if these were exactly the qualities adapted to their purposes. They will never, indeed, continue to retain men who are obviously unequal to their duty; but they have a large portion of business to scatter, which numbers greatly differing in real power can do equally well; and some junior business, which hardly requires any talent at all. In some cases, therefore, they are virtually not only judges but patrons, who, by employing young men early, give "I, Jean de Merion, bein trow necessité oblige them not merely fees, but courage, practice, and to teach la langue Francaise to du peuple, I be the means of becoming known to others. From glad you send your child's à moi. Je demeure this extraordinary position arises the necessity of toder ind, Second Street. All my leisiere hour the strictest etiquette in form, and the nicest hon-make sausage à vend. Oh! I forget to tell or in conduct, which strangers are apt to ridicule, how much I ave for teach de school; 4 crowns but which alone can prevent the Bar from being a quarter for teach de plus polite langue of Euprostrated at the feet of an inferior class." rope."

The following appeared in the English Newspapers, verbatim et literatim—

fine and hard; picked out very fine and black, be-
fore and now. Sell very good ink. Prime cost is
very dear. This ink is heavy; so is gold; no one
can make like it; the others that make ink
good for a name.
do it for money and to cheat. I only make it
my ink. My family never cheat.
Plenty of gentlemen know
Always a
good name. I make ink for the Emperor and all
the mandarins round. All gentlemen must come
to my shop and know my name.

There is hardly any art of civilized life Among the varied qualities of advertise- in which we have not been anticipated by ments, we must not forget the bold person- the Chinese. They have carried the art of ifications contained in them. The other advertising to a high degree of perfection; day we saw one from a musical composer, but we can only afford room for a speciwho proposed to make a musical circuit for men. The original document, which has the purpose of giving concerts-" Wanted, been literally translated for this Journal, Five voices, who will be boarded and kept formed the envelope of an ink-bottleat the expense of the Advertiser." In anoth- "Very good ink, very fine, very old shop; er, the friends of a youth desirous of ap-grandfather, father, and myself make this ink; prenticing him, add "No chemist need apply, or any very laborious employment." Sometimes the language is calculated to encourage surmises that cannot be intended. Thus: "PARTNER WANTED. Any person who can command from £2000 to £3000, may join the advertiser in his business, the principal of which is for transportation." Equally striking, though in a different way, was what appeared newly painted over a shop-door in Exeter one Sunday morning a few years since: "Mrs. M. deals in all sorts of Ladies" The whole place was in a commotion; a special meeting of the Dean and Chapter was convened by the Bishop, and a summons to attend the Ecclesiastical Court was ordered to be served the next morning; but when the apparitor presented himself at the door of the culprit, he found a painter in the act of adding "Wearing Apparel." The mischief had been occasioned by the painter's leaving his job halffinished on the Saturday. Fortunately both for him and Mrs. M., Dr. Philpotts was not then the Bishop.

Foreigners naturally enough make strange mistakes when they try their strength in English. We saw posted up in a shop window in the Rue de St. Honore-" Here they spike the English." M. Boulangeat once circulated the following card in two languages

"UNGWANCHI LOCCE."

Notwithstanding the eloquence displayed in the composition of the various printed appeals to the public, few speculators rest satisfied without calling in the aid of the pencil, to point and illustrate the flights and fancies of the pen. Thus the wonderworking powers of "Holloway's Ointment" are brought home to the meanest apprehension by a tablet, at the top of which stands an Esculapius distributing pots or boxes to a gentleman in a brown coat on crutches, a gentleman in a blue coat with a bandaged leg, a lady in a yellow shawl who is making wry faces, and a little boy in a puce-colored jacket who has lost his hair. At the bottom, in one corner, stands a finely-dressed woman, with a blue scroll, inscribed, "Cancer, Burns, and Scalds," worn like the ribbon of the Garter; in the opposite corner, is a finely-dressed woman wearing a red ribbon (like the order of the Bath,) inscribed "Lumbago, Bunions, and Soft Corns."

Oldridge's "Balm of Columbia" is recom- | Truth. Lord Bacon says, "A mixture of mended by two pictorial embellishments; in lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man one, an Amazon, with hair reaching below doubt, that, if there were taken from men's the girdle, is leaning on a bow, to the end minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false of which is attached a streamer, with "For valuations, imaginations as one would say, the Hair" printed on it; in the other, the and the like vinum Dæmonum, (as a Father Falls of Niagara appear in that fullness of calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds grandeur which so many aspirants in the of a number of men poor shrunken things, line of "fine writing" have painfully taxed full of melancholy and indisposition, and their powers to portray. unpleasing to themselves ?" It would now "Balm of Syriacum" again, is stamped be more to the purpose to inquire, what is in large letters on the girdle of Fame, who likely to be the effect of living in an atmosis blowing her trumpet over the heads of phere of falsehood?-where nobody says various respectable Orientals employed in what he means, or means what he saysrestoring their "nervous and debilitated where every thing is seen through the constitutions" with the medicine. A bear, smoked glass of interest, or the Claude worthy of Schneyder, surmounts a list of Lorraine glass of flattery-where copper testimonials to the efficacy of Bear's Grease; gilt passes current for gold, and Bristol and Atkinson's Infant Preservative, "of stones for diamonds of the first waterwhich forty thousand bottles are annually where the best and wisest may come in disposed of," is forced on public attention by the portrait of a female in the act of pouring the anti-Malthusian fluid down the throat of a struggling baby with a spoon. English artists complain that they are not encouraged; and the utmost the legislature has been able to do for them of late years, is to create or confirm a copyright in designs for calicoes. Surely their genius would range more freely in the almost boundless field of advertisement. As for degradation, there is none. Canova came out in butter; in other words, he first attracted notice by a design for an ornament in butter, required for the centre of a supper-table. Who can say that the next P. R. A. may not owe the patronage of a discerning public to a fancy-piece, illustrating the healing properties of Antibilious Pills, or the beautifying effects of Kalydor?

Space permitting, we would endeavor to trace the progress of the Advertising System through the other leading countries of Europe, if only for the purpose of showing how it has invariably kept pace with the progress of intellect. The best things are often most liable to be perverted to the worst purposes; and constant exposure to the assaults of charlatanry is probably a part of the price we must be content to pay for the blessings of education and the freedom of the press. But then comes the question, how, or where is all this to end? Are we to sink back into stolid indifference with each his bushel over his light, or to rush madly through the streets announcing our merits and pretensions-as Boswell ran about at the Shakspeare festival with "Corsican Boswell" inscribed upon his hat? We have had speculations enough regarding the advantages of living in the Palace of

time to resemble the maniac, who mistakes his straw chaplet for a crown. Those who feel confident in the strength of their heads may follow up this train of speculation. For the present, we will rest satisfied with having supplied the materials and suggested it; since our most strenuous efforts to solve the problem have simply brought us to that disagreeable state of the mental faculties in which

Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is every thing, and every thing is
nought."

LINES

BY THE REV. M. VICARY.

From the Dublin University Magazine.

THERE is a bark unseen in which we glide,
Above the billows of life's stormy sea,
As

buoyant as the sea-bird on the tide

Though dangers thicken round, from fear as free.

The winds may freshen, and the lightning play,
At midnight streaming o'er the briny deck;

Yet in this airy bark we speed away,

Certain of port, secure from rock and wreck.

She laughs at th' elemental war; and the wild wave
Dashes itself against the prow in vain :
A hand directs the helm that well can save,
And bid be hushed each doubting fear again.
There is a land, a fair and happy land,
Where all are welcome on her friendly coast:
No surges break upon that sunny strand,

But each dark care in pleasure pure is lost.

There sorrow's fountain pours no crystal store;
Grief has no sigh, the heart no gnawing pain-
The mind no torture, and the eye weeps no more
There smiles the captive o'er his broken chain.
Such is the clime we seek, and such the sail :
Guide us, thou friendly star!-breathe, gentle gale!
For that fair bark is Hope-that land is Heaven!

For it, from home all willingly we're driven.

Kotzebue. My celebrity and distinctions, if I must speak of them, quite satisfy me. Kotzebue.-You misunderstand me. Our Neither in youth nor in advancing age-conduct must fall in with our circumstances. neither in difficult nor in easy circumstan- We may be patriotic, yet not puritanical ces, have I ventured to proclaim myself the tutor or the guardian of mankind.