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in himself, is a mere blockhead when brought into contact with 

 the world; and his pupil will infallibly turn out either a pedant 

 or an ignoramus. 



The way to choose is to take hold of your man, and set him 

 down at your dinner-table ; if he can satisfy his hunger without 

 attracting the attention of your servants, and imbibe his full 

 share of wine without getting tipsy, or making mouths at it — 

 this looks well ; then hear him talk, and if he knows what every 

 body is saying, and has some tolerable notions of his own on 

 every subject, which he neither obtrudes nor conceals — then up 

 with him to the drawing-room. If, among the ladies, he is 

 neither a bear nor a puppy ; if he neither stares at your wife, nor 

 broods skulkingly over his cofFee-cup; if his manner softens un- 

 consciously; if he speaks freely and yet delicately, and listens, 

 when a woman talks, with unaffected attention, and a manly 

 ressppct — he will almost certainly do. Then try him with the 

 tongues. If he understands little of the vehicle, but much of 

 what he lias learned through its means, if he can cite thoughts 

 or passages without remembering books or pages; if he has a 

 taste and a feeling for classical beauty ; if he remembers, with 

 youthful delight, the time when antiquity opened a new existence 

 to his soul, and is able to separate that era from the one in which 

 he was flogged by Dr. Parr ; if, in fine, he looks upon travelling 

 as a luxury for the heart and mind, rather than as a task for the 

 memory — that is your man ! 



We remember we were greatly pleased with a passage in one 

 of Mr. Bulwer's admirable novels — perhaps Pelham — in which 

 he notices the effect produced upon such a body as the House of 

 Commons by an apposite quotation from a classical author. 

 Nothing can be better expressed, or more pleasing or natural in 

 itself. The audience are all, or almost all, well-educated gen- 

 tlemen ; and the words operate like a talisman in calling up the 

 associations of the golden days of their existence. The admi- 

 ration which would have been wrested from them in their college 

 days is bestowed unconsciously now that times and scenes are 

 changed ; and they look upon the speaker for the moment as a 

 brother and a comrade. 



It is just in this way that a young man should travel. No 

 walking library of dulness should be at his side to remind him 

 ever and anon- " thus saith the historian on this point, and 

 thus the poet singeth of such a place :" recollections should 

 gush up involuntary in the hearts of both. 



