II. 



MANNERS AND FASHION. 



&quot;T&quot;TT~I1OEVER has studied the physiognomy of political 

 V V meetings, cannot fail to have remarked a connection 

 between democratic opinions and peculiarities of costume. 

 At a Chartist demonstration, a lecture on Socialism, or a 

 soiree of the Friends of Italy, there will be seen many 

 among the audience, and a still larger ratio among the 

 speakers, who get themselves up in a style more or less 

 unusual. One gentleman on the platform divides his hair 

 down the centre, instead of on one side ; another brushes 

 it back off the forehead, in the fashion known as &quot;bringing 

 out the intellect ; a third has so long forsworn the scis 

 sors, that his locks sweep his shoulders. A considerable 

 sprinkling of moustaches may be observed ; here and there 

 an imperial ; and occasionally some courageous breaker of 

 conventions exhibits a full-grown beard.* This noncon 

 formity in hair is countenanced by various nonconformities 

 in dress, shown by others of the assemblage. Bare necks, 

 shirt-collars d la Byron, waistcoats cut Quaker fashion, 

 wonderfully shaggy great coats, numerous oddities in form 

 and colour, destroy the monotony usual in crowds. Ever 

 those exhibiting no conspicuous peculiarity, frequently in 



* This was written before moustaches and beards had become commou. 



