1 82 love's MEINlE. 



In either case, its proper classical English 

 sense is given by Johnson as " a mean, awk- 

 ward fellow; a bumpkin, a clown." 



Now I surely cannot refer to any general 

 representation of British society more accept- 

 able to, and acknowledged by, that society, 

 than the finished and admirably composed 

 drawings of Du Maurier in Punch which 

 have become every week more and more con- 

 sistent, keen, and comprehensive, during the 

 issues of the last two years. 



I take three of them, as quite trustworthy 

 pictures, and the best our present arts of 

 delineation could produce, of the three Etats, 

 or representative orders, of the British nation 

 of our day. 



Of the Working class, take the type given 

 in Lady Clara Robinson's garden tea party, 

 p. 174, vol. 79. 



Of the Mercantile class, Mr. Smith, in his 

 drawing-room after dinner, p. 222, vol. 80. 



And of the Noblesse, the first five gentle- 

 men on the right (spectator's right) of the line, 

 in the ball at Stilton House, (July 3rd, 1880). 



136. Of the manner or state of lout, to 

 which our manufacturing prosperity has 



