He may indeed be able to
——"'hold the mirror up to Nature;'
but to attempt to reflect the changeful hues of mere fashion"——
Not too fast, my young friends! Do not suppose me capable of such folly. But, for the benefit of such of you as are so far removed from the centre of ton as to require such assistance, I have invoked the aid of a good-humored friend, thoroughly au fait in such matters, the "observed of all observers" in our American Belgravia, a luminary in whose rays men do gladly sun themselves.
H. L.
Footnotes:
[1] It will be understood, of course, that the necessities and the regulations of military life are here excepted.