On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
By the Author of ' Random Recollections of the Lords and Conimons / 2 vols . Saunders and Otley * 1836 . It would be a famous test of the relative value of the sciences of physiognomy and phrenology , were Lavater and Messrs Spurzheim and Gall now living ; and if , without having
anyknowled ge whatever , except from these volumes , of who or what their author is in mind , character , and external superficies , they were publicly solicited by all the colleges to write , down the development and relations of his organs , and describe . the kind of features and expression which he must have * The , idea is almost enough to tempt one , though knowing " no
more than the dead " of the individual , to speculate largely on his organs of locality , acquisitiveness , and having-seen-itiveness ; of his small , clear , calm , yet rapid eye , and projecting , all-intrusive nose , —thus peering and joking everywhere and into every thing . He walks about London like the devil upon two pens , and , right and left , he writes as fast as I > ef
walks . He goes to the top of St Paul's , and looking down qix the vast concourse below , notes all their doings . He ( Joes nqjt , meddle much with their thoughts , or take the will for if ) $ deed ; but rather takes their acts as sponsors for alt tne rest . He is a dreadful matter-of-fact man ; a serious neighbour , provided he has a mind to know all the u secrets of the family . "
It may be a question whether he always " minds his own business ; " very plain is it , however , that he minds the businessof every body else . There is no keeping him out , and no knowing when he is in . He gets behind the scenes of every theatre , and is in the middle of every warm discussion in front
of the curtain—saying nothing . He is erudite in the Clubs of London ; their founders , the buildings , and furnishing expenses , — -ground-rent and taxes , —capital , —interest on capital , —wages of the cook and his subjects , — library , gas ^ fuel , literature , washing and cleaning , —larks of members with the kitchen maids ( he even knows who kisses the kitchen- :
maids !)—value of wine in the cellar , —revenue to the Ctub by the sale of once-used packs of cards , — " private " anecdotes , — forms of election , —eccentric characters among the members , with their favourite dishes , —entrance and subscription-money ; —conversation at table , —nick ~ names , &c . &c . &c . —here we
have them all ! In thinking of his book it almoBt takes one ' s breath away . Then for the Gaming-houses—but really he must speak for himself : — " Crockford ' g is the largest gaming establishment in the metropolis ; perhaps it is the largest In the world . The house is situated on the
Untitled Article
7 % e Great Metropolis . ?< & $
Untitled Article
THE GREAfc METROPOLIS .
Untitled Article
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/51/
-