NOTKS OF THK MONTH. 281 



Earl of Roden ; if, in the Lower House, Tory principles are still to be 

 asserted, Mr. Scarlett, the leader of what Mr. O'Connell calls the "calf- 

 headed" gentry, has the sole enviable honour of raising his bray on 

 behalf of the faction. This is exactly as it should be. To this com- 

 plexion we knew it would come at last. 



Yankee and Dutch Advertising. — We have often been amused 

 with the specimens of American Advertising, which occasionally come 

 under our eye. The following is not amiss : — ■ 



'•Anthony Macdonald teaches boys and girls their grammar tongue: also, 

 Geography, terrestrial and celestial. Old hats made as good as new." 



There can be no question that if Anthony is able to perform all he 

 here promises, he is a universal genius. No man not possessing the 

 most versatile talents, could unite in his own person the somewhat hete- 

 rogeneous qualifications requisite for teaching "boys and girls their g)-am- 

 mar tongue, also geography, terrestrial and celestial ;" and making " old 

 hats as good as new." To be instructed in " celestial geography," by 

 which Anthony, we suppose, means the geography of the heavens — ge- 

 nerally called by other people. Astronomy, — must be a very great matter: 

 but as the world goes, especially in Jonathan's land, we shrewdlv suspect, 

 that if Anthony can, according to promise, in reality make "old hats 

 as good as new," he is likely to drive a somewhat brisker and more profit- 

 able business that way, than in teaching the young idea how to shoot, the 

 Americans being notorious for their " shocking bad hats." The Dutch are 

 beginning to vie with the Americans, in the article of original advertise- 

 ments. It is not a long time since one of Dutch manufacture — and the 

 production of a woman — came under our observation, which struck 

 us as being extremely happy of its kind. Here it is, and let our readers 

 judge of its merits for themselves : — 



"Van Roorst died on tlie 15th instant He was the best of husbands, and his 

 relict is inconsolable at her loss. God rest iiis soul in peace, is the earnest prayer 

 of his deeply afflicted widow, who will, as usual, continue to supply her friends 

 with the best articles in the grocery and cheesemongery line, at the most reasonable 

 terms." 



Here an ardent affection for the " dear departed," is most ingeniously 

 blended with the affairs of the shop. In England, we cannot manage 

 matters in this fashion. If a woman be inconsolable for the death of 

 her husband, — which every woman ought to be, if, as in this case, he was 

 " the best of husbands," — she very foolishly forgets everything else in 

 the extremity of her affliction. In Holland, the deepest regret for a de- 

 ceased partner in life is perfectly compatible with a due regard to the 

 pounds, shillings, and pence matters of the shop. There the inconsolable 

 widow, in the depths of her distress, never for one moment, if in the 

 " grocery and cheesemongery line," — or, we suppose, in any other line — 

 forgets that she has " articles" to vend "at the most reasonable terms;" 

 and in notifying to her friends the decease of her husband, she takes 

 care to intimate the latter fact also. Sorrow and business — the grave 

 and the shop, are here blended together, with a felicity peculiar to the 

 " inconsolable widows" of Holland. 



