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Mill, of tlie Westminster Review, must grow several inches taller upon 

 the intelligence. There is serious hope, that if we proceed as we have 

 begun, in half a dozen years more, our shopkeepers will forget their 

 English, and speak a delightful compound of every language from Calais 

 to Constantinople. We have divans among our shops already ; and the 

 Sanscrit is making way in the neighbourhood of Hanover-square, and for 

 several doors round the corner of Harewood-place. 



But leaving the glorious influx of French, German, and Italian, to 

 make up a jargon, Avhich, like Corinthian brass, will be ten times more 

 precious than the materials, we must exult, as a classic nation, in the 

 brilliant supremacy of Greek in our shop w indows. 



When Loutherbourg, some years ago, called his pretty show-box an 

 Eidophusikon, the world stared ; and, as that was the very thing the 

 cunning Swiss wanted of the world, we can only give him credit for his 

 ingenuity. The citizens felt themselves the nobler members of society 

 for having given their shillings to a show-box with so majestic a name. 

 The squires were all driven to the aid of the parson of the parish to let 

 them into the secret of this formidable appellation ; and, having satisfied 

 themselves that it meant neither magic nor treason, made their wills, 

 booked themselves in the next stage, and boldly came up to town. The 

 phusikon family had many branches ; and a Birmingham razor-maker, 

 gathering all tlie curiosities of that Vulcanian town, built a house for 

 tliem, and invited the inhabitants of the universe to enter, and lay out 

 their sixpences in honour of the Phusitechiikon. But what is immortal 

 in this world of mortality .-' The " Rama" dynasty were destined to 

 eclipse this ancient stock. The Panoramas, Stereoramas, and Georamas, 

 triumphed over all resistance. They have since been reinforced by the 

 Cosmoramas and Dioramas. A Pelagorama is about to add to this in- 

 teresting family ; and an Astrorama is already on its descent, like an 

 Avatar of Vishnu from the circle of the fixed stars. But the Ramas 

 themselves must decay ; for Avhat vuider the sun is safe from the stroke 

 of change ? A new rival has sprung up in the shop windows, the mighty 

 family of the Pans. We have a Panhermetikon which seals all the 

 letters of a counting-house, were they as large as from -Charing-cross to 

 Cornhill, at a single impression. A Panthermanticon, or warming-pan, 

 on a Colossal scale, and intended for giving an equality of caloric to the 

 beds of a whole ship's company on a polar voyage ; and a Pankeleustikon, 

 or cabinet council trumpet, by which a minister, at the distance of 

 Windsor or Walmer, may dictate his will to any number of his depen- 

 dents sitting in Downing-street, and receive their submission, quicker 

 than the telegraph could send it. 



General science has not been forgotten in the favours conferred on 

 mankind by the Pan dynasty. We have a Panphologisticon for giving 

 house-warmings — a Panagorastikon for writing down speeches, intended 

 for public meetings, parliament, and the common council. But other 

 arts are taking their share. A barber of genius has already established 

 an Eukeirogeneion, or a contrivance for unparalleled ease and elegance 

 of shaving ; though, whether this is to be effected by a new soap or a 

 new razor, the happy obscurity of the title leaves the learned in doubt. 

 That those fine accessions to literary taste will continue with a rapid 

 increase, we have no doubt ; and shall suggest a new Cakometer for 

 the purpose of ascertaining their weekly increase ; and a new PufFometer 

 to make it known, with requisite honours, to the public of the most 

 philosophical, gullible, and puzzleable nation under the sun. 



