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Life in Paris. London. 1825.

IT is somewhere said of Buffon, we believe, that he was so polished and beautiful a writer, that he charmed the celebrated Mademoiselle d'Espinasse into the circle of his acquaintance by the magic of his pen; but that the fair creature was absolutely shocked out of his neighbourhood on the first sally from his lips. This was in consequence of the disastrous contrast between Buffon in presence, and Buffon on paper; for the honest naturalist, instead of Lydian measure, introduced matters with an old saw, and a decayed proverb, and, in short, swore emphatically before Mademoiselle in the same sentence. This was certainly unpromising. Yet it only exemplifies what we too often meet with now-a-days in the book-making and literary world. To be sure, there is some analogy to human nature in literature, in this respect; but human nature is the last thing an author has to do with in these factitious times; he must eschew it, as resolutely as our actors. It is delightful to go out in some sunny day, on some great occasion,-like a carnival, or a fourth of July, and witness the pompous and busy things that are going forward, and imagine all that fancy will help you to, in addition to it; and it is something glorious to see the hero of the time carried along among trumpets and chivalry and all the uproar of the occasion;-but it naturally strikes us as distressing, to meet that hero in the evening, corkscrewing his legs in company, and reminding us of any thing but the splendour and thrilling confusion of which he occasioned an important portion

in the day time. So it is with the orator, who has constituted half the dazzle and fascination of the day,-it is torture to see him working his passage through a dance, in his boots; or with the tragedian, who has done capitally while he could draw on his author for language, or his costume for applause,—it is next to martyrdom to see him with an air gauche, assuming politesse and endeavouring at refinement, where the drama of real life is going on all about him. There are some things better seen at a distance, and there are some persons who are better made to act than to write. This is no scandal, and no reproach; for, in the first place, the Spectator has said as much before us, and Addison himself is only the converse of the latter part of our proposition. The wit was no wonder at conversation, or talk (for we believe Dr Johnson distinguishes the two); but who could tell better, in type, what he and Will Honeycomb said and did at the coffee-houses, and in their chairs?

The great capital of the gay empire is certainly a worthy subject for any octavo. We believe London furnished one before this, and gave birth to a deal of amusement, and such entertainment as is cheap in the market. This, no doubt, is a work of emulation, and the second of its species. We shall waste no time to analyze it; but merely remark, that it is a strong instance exemplifying the doctrine with which we set out, that however imperial Dick Wildfire may be in the Boulevards and the Palais Royal, he comes as a lack-wit, a second-rate beau, to the shrine of Minerva. There are certain books, and this is one of them,which impress you with the serious value of a good taste; much as you become impressed, in that way, of the value of good company, at a race-course or a gaming-table. You think of elegant literature, and elegant people, and feel the "hiatus valde deflendus" conspicuously, and to the quick. These are, however, but some of the miseries of sensibility and good education, which, Heaven knows, are the worthiest subjects of all charitable and compassionate societies in this or any other country. This "Life in Paris," then, however charming in reality, is a miserable matter in the hands of a narrator, who, at best, was but a slang-whanger of the Tuilleries, and an adept in all the arts and frolics, from Very's and the Rouge et Noir adyta, down to the smallest of the little hells,* which meet you at every turn in the metropolis. These things, after all, must be worked up with a polished adroitness as well as ability, and for the elegant

* A very pungent definition of gaming-houses in the French capital.

philosopher and wit, we know of few things more suited to his taste and powers, than the infinite and oriental variety of this glittering Babel. But for common men and common pens, for your literary Corinthians, your Neros in dissipation, and your Esterhazys in costume! Procul este profani! there is no approach for such to the mysteries of the press. For our own part, we were long ago satisfied with poor Yorick's stories about Paris, and all France that he went through; it thoroughly convinced us, that for the man of true sentiment and dignified notions, you could find no better historian of these things than your inoffensive genius, with a shrewd look about him, and two black pair of silk breeches." He will give you nothing but France the intellectual, and France the beautiful, though he go to their very dancing (for the French are intellectual even in their quadrilles); and you know nothing from him about the cafés or champagne, only so far as it serves to give grace to his pen, so different is he from Lady Morgan and Peter Morris.

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Great cities always furnish great stories, and better than that, they always have great mysteries attached to them, and for them, in short, we have great reverence. London has always troubled us from the time we were ten years old. We remember to have read then, as we do now, about the cloud of smoke which veils it from the sun, and points it out to all who are flying to it for shelter. Then, too, we read of, and dreamt about it, as the grand nucleus of romantic adventure, the dark, portentous, busy place, where love felt safe, and intrigue went forward with its still and treacherous purposes; but we never thanked the man, whether traveller or tale-teller, who told us the miserable facts, that this cloud,-whilome to us more magical than that which veiled Jove in Homer, and Venus in Virgil,-that this veritable cloud was only the consequence of burning some villanous charcoal or seacoal underneath it; and that the city itself was altogether under the "beck and bidding" of the Rothschilds and Barings; and now-a-days busy, heart and soul, with the grand romance of forcing a tunnel under the bed of the Thames. This has effectually cured us of all vaults and trap-doors. But Paris is another matter. There is much there, that is still dear to our recollections and our feelings. The old times of the Troubadours come back, to think of Paris. The fantastic ages of the drama; Louis XIV., his court and his coteries; the poets playing their own plays, and kings keeping doors for them; the love of ladies, and the brilliant flashings of chivalry, all these things come upon us, as memories peculiar