124 Cfjose JSnitisitg. 



enter the "waiting room," almost blush to own how 

 heartily you regret that that estimable and able 

 practitioner had not been engaged two deep through- 

 out the remainder of the day ! 



On the table 3^ou will find a few carefully arranged 

 books, consisting chiefly of poems and magazines of 

 the goody order, from which latter you are at liberty 

 to acquire sundry easily-extracted moral lessons 

 should the former prove too light a species of 

 literature for the delectation of your at present 

 heavy heart. To-day's Times — as, too, some of the 

 Illustrated Papers — is at your disposal, and mayhap 

 also, should your adviser be humorously disposed, 

 your inquisitive eyes are not unlikely to encounter 

 upon the walls divers neatly-framed caricatures dis- 

 playing fellow-sufferers in every possible stage of 

 imaginable agony. And all these are provided, mind, 

 for your entertainment, as, too, are the pretty land- 

 scapes which, suspended here and there, surmount 

 the latter — and very fair specimens of their school 

 they are. 



But O ! it is cruel upon the respective artists for 

 their works thus to be brought to our notice, so I 

 will not enlarge upon them further; but were I 

 myself a landscape painter with any special style of 

 my own, I would, before selling any picture, always 

 ascertain that the would-be purchaser was not a 



