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generosity of nature on the other—that the so-called nobles areas arrogant as dunghill-cocks, and the pcople as fawning andservile as hounds: the one class exacting an amount of syco-phancy from the other that would be absolutely nauseous toevery right noble nature (as if your true German Prince, boa-like, could swallow nothing but what was well covered withslaver), and the other ready to stoop to an act of self-degrada-tion, against which even an educated negro would rebel.

How different is this arrogance of the titled " Hunger-leute"of Deutschland from the unassuming dignity of our own mo-narch, who, though Queen of the riebest and greatest nation inthe world, can yet afford to bc addressed as simple " Madam;"as if among enlightened people there were really no title higherthan that of gentlewoman ! How different, too, on the otherhand, is the sycophancy of the German people from the manli-ness of Englishmen, who, while maintaining the social distinc-tions of Majesty and Nobility, yet do not attribute to them anymoral or intellectual superiority; so that each member of theState, asserting his own innate dignity as a gentleman, doesnot hesitate to apply the same language, even to the head ofthe nation, as he would use to any and every person of arefined and honourable nature.

Indeed, the parade of mere nominal titles throughout Ger-many is not only offensive to every unprejudiced mind, but weare happy to add it has already began to appear ridiculous evenin the eyes of the solemn natives themselves. What a pro-found insight into the apishness of human nature did the FirstNapoleon exhibit, when he invented a little strip of red ribbonfor the would-be ennobleinent of French government-clerksand tradesmen ! Monboddo thought that the human raee hada brace of baboons for their original ancestors ; and assuredly,if mankind had been descended directly from the simian

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