Enouism is an expressive language said Mr. Pinto, "bat not difficalt to master. Its range is limited. It consists, as far og I can observe, of four words: "nice," "jolly," "charming," and "bore," and' some grammarians add "fond." Thus the author of Lothair hits very happily those who indulge in the use of a limited vocabalary of slang expressions. There will always be persons who affect a jargon of this kind. In old days, however, the Euphuists taxed their ingenuity for new phrases and prided themselves on producing & number of odd and unusual ones. Our economical age has ran to another extreme, and nothing can exceed the parsimony of speech which distinguishes the modern Englishman, The average persons whom we meet every day live, as far as Iaugunge is concerned, on a very small capital, and make the fewest words do. We Intely rend a Inment on the decline of oratory, and this has been preceded by many like jeremiads on the decline of conversation, There is something very humiliating in considering how important a part is played in all our lives by repetition. OF course, in the nature of things, as the business and pleasure of one day closely resemble the business and pleasure of the next, most commonplace people find themselves repeating the acts of Monday in a routine that knows few variations until Saturday night, and then beginning to do ib all over again. This is readily enough admitted, but we rarely understand how we all repent ourselves in speech, and how we all of us ron in certain conversational grooves, and when we are started on a particular topic, repeat over and over again the same anecdotes, illustrations and forms of expression. The character in " novel or a comedy who has one stock phrase ever recurring like the " prodigious of Dominie Sampson or the "I'm gormed" of old Pegotly, excites a smile at first, but is almost always censured by critics as wearisome and uutrueto nature. The fact is that neither of these comic personages repeat thomselves nearly so much as their readers and their critics, for while the creations of the novelists repeat a single catch. word or phase, the majority of persons repent sentences, stories and opinions to extent that would astound them if they were confronted witha short-hand report of their sayings during a single week, Mr. Galton some time ago called attention to n phenomenon which he had observed, and which illustrates our meaning in a striking way. Ho writes in an instructive paper called "Paychometric Facts," published in the Nineteenth Century, "I have had numerous occasions, owing to a long and intimate connection with the Geographical Society, of familinrising myself with successive editions of the narratives of explorers and travellers in wild countries, Letters are in the first instance received from the traveller while still pursuing his journey; than some colonial newspaper records his first public accounts of it on his re-entry into civilised lands; then we hear his tale from his own lips in conversation in England; then comes his memoir read before the Society; then
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