[41] Ibid.
[42] Antonio Perez et Philipe II., par Mons. Mignet, 1 vol. 3d ed.
[43] Documentos ineditos para la Historia de España, vol. vii. p. 247-257.
[44] Documentos ineditos para la Historia de España, vol. vii. p. 265.
[45] "Look there, look at the big gentleman on the little horse."
[46] "Gone, gone."
[47] One of the superficial peculiarities of American magazines is that the names of all the contributors are generally paraded conspicuously on the cover, very few seeking even the disguise of a pseudonym. The number of "most remarkable" men and women who thus display themselves in print is surprising.
[48] This periodical is particularly unfortunate in its predictions. Last year one of them was absolutely falsified before its appearance. The Democratic introduced a biographical sketch of an eminent politician, with the announcement that "before another number was issued, the people of his State would have re-elected him to the highest office in their gift." Accident delayed the publication of this prophecy for a short time, and it appeared the very day after Mr —— had been defeated by a large majority. Thereupon some editors on the other side stated that the Democratic Review was to be discontinued, "as we learn from its own columns," which may have been a good joke or not, according to tastes. Certainly the editor of the Democratic did his best to make it so, by publishing a serious and angry contradiction of the report.
[49] We have heard this argument again and again in America, generally in reference to the seediest of verses; and there could not be a greater proof of the vagueness and erroneousness of American public opinion as to the nature and object of criticism, and the qualifications for exercising it.
[50] As a general rule, that is: we in America have lately met with some striking exceptions.