(Author of Three Men in " Boat I never visit a music-hall without roflect-. ing concerning the groat future there must be before the human race. How young we are, how very young! And think of all weave done! Man is still a mere boy. He has only just within the last haifa century been put into trousers; two thousand years ago he wore long clothes the Grecinn robe, the Renan toxa. Then followed the Little Lord Fauntleroy period, when he went about dressed velvet suit with Ince collar and coils, and had his hair curled for him. The late Iamented Queen Victoria put him into trousers. What a wonderful little man he will be when he is grown up A clergyman friend of mine told me of a German kurhaus to which ho was sent for his sins and his health. It was a resort, for some season ecially patronised by the more elderly jection of the higher English middle class, Bishops we-e there, suffering from fatty degeneration of the heart caused by too close application to study; ancient spinsters of good fai subject to spasms; gouty retired generals, (Can anybody tell me how many men in the British Army go to a general? Somebody once assured me it was five thousand, but that la absurd, on the face of i. The British Army in that case would have to be count-el by millions, there are a goodish fow American colonels still knocking about; the American colonel is still to be met with here and there by the curious traveller, but compared with the retired British general he is_an extinct species. In Cheltenham and Brighton, ant other favoured towns, there ar, streets of nothing buf retired Bri generals, Abroad theregaro pensions with a special scale of charges for British generals,
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