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These travellers, on chamber-horses, possess a certain talent of making their style palatable to the world; they excel in pomposity, at least they make it current; it is their passe par tou t ; it helps them through all their difficulties, it enables them to exceed probability, and set possibility at defiance; such is the German recipe for book-making. But as they have at length found out that inju­ ries are punishable, and that insults will, sooner or later, be resented; they have adopted a most ingenious subterfuge, now universally in vogue, which is to palliate all that prejudice, rancour, and dullness can engender, with this pusillanimous apology: “ I should, indeed, be very