Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . VILLAGE LAWTEE. and intelligence than the Englishman, and gen-erally with better manners; and, for the rest,exhibiting greater breadth, both of body andsoul, than we had hoped to find in these lati-tudes. But it seemed, as our train hurried on towardBoston, partially changing its living freight atevery station, that the type of man began tochange; and we could recognize among thephysiognomies around us characteristic marksof that great whittling, guessing, speculating,moralizing race whose destiny is—still a matterof guess-work. T
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . VILLAGE LAWTEE. and intelligence than the Englishman, and gen-erally with better manners; and, for the rest,exhibiting greater breadth, both of body andsoul, than we had hoped to find in these lati-tudes. But it seemed, as our train hurried on towardBoston, partially changing its living freight atevery station, that the type of man began tochange; and we could recognize among thephysiognomies around us characteristic marksof that great whittling, guessing, speculating,moralizing race whose destiny is—still a matterof guess-work. This dapper gentleman, with a smirk on hi?face, which he thinks is a smile, a shining, high-. AGENT OF UUMAKE SOCIETY. A SUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND. 761 crowned hat, and a silk umbrella,I should take to be the presidentof some railroad or manufacturingcompany, a prince of button-ma-kers, or principal stock-owner in awooden bucket-mill. That quiet, inscrutable littleman, who reads the newspaper, wewould guess might be a villagelawyer, with a legal mind, which,if united with a thoroughly legalmorality, might entitle him to aseat in the State Legislature. This prim, tallow-faced individ-ual, with a white cravat and puck-ered mouth, is unmistakable—thetraveling agent of some great mor-al reform, or humanitarian society,whose plans, if universally adopt-ed, promise incalculable benefitsto the human race. The special- —-^^ty of this person may be, perhaps,the propagation of vegetarian prin-ciples among the Esquimaux, or agrand union movement for the abolition of po-lygamy among the Turks, and the enforcementof monogamy among the Roman clergy. Thecelebrated Cardinal de Retz advises us
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