. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). , are notorious novel-readers ; as well as youngboys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who hasnot read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels every nightwhen he was not at whist ? As for that lazy naughty boy at Chur, I doubt whether hewill like novels when he is thirty years of age. He is takingtoo great a glut of them now. He is eating jelly until he willbe sick. H
. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). , are notorious novel-readers ; as well as youngboys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who hasnot read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels every nightwhen he was not at whist ? As for that lazy naughty boy at Chur, I doubt whether hewill like novels when he is thirty years of age. He is takingtoo great a glut of them now. He is eating jelly until he willbe sick. He will know most plots by the time he is twenty, sothat he will never be surprised when the Stranger turns out tobe the rightful earl,—when the old waterman, throwing off hisbeggarly gabardine, shows his stars and the collars of his vari-ous orders, and clasping Antonia to his bosom, proves himselfto be the prince, her long-lost father. He will recognize thenovelists same characters, though they appear in red-heeledpumps and ailes-de-pigeon, or the garb of the nineteenth will get weary of sweets, as boys of private schools grow (orused to grow, for I have done growing some little time myself,. A LAZY IDLE BOY. ON A LAZY IDLE BOY. 11 and the practice may have ended too)—as private schoolboysused to grow tired of the pudding before their mutton at dinner. And pray what is the moral of this apologue ? The moral Itake to be this : the appetite for novels extending to the end ofthe world ; far away in the frozen deep, the sailors reading themto one another during the endless night ;—far away under theSyrian stars, the solemn sheikhs and elders hearkening to thepoet as he recites his tales ; far away in the Indian camps, where the soldiers listen to s tales, or s, after the hot days march ; far away in little Chur yonder, where the lazy boy poresover the fond volume, and drinks it in with all his eyes ;—thedemand being what we know it is, the merchant must supply i
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