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lost, and '' the fine old Eu^lish gentleman " lives 

 but in song. 



This is all quite right ; so it is that the 

 venerable structure should be pulled down to 

 make way for the more elegant and convenient 

 modern edifice. Still the mind is hurt by such 

 desecration, and what was dear to us in our 

 youth, and that which we have been accustomed 

 to look at with respect, still clings to the mind 

 and heart not wholly devoid of feeling, and 

 swayed by the impulse of interest, fashion, and 

 moderu innovation, or, perhaps, in some cases, 

 improvement. 



There can be no doubt but the modern cosmo- 

 polist, for so we may term most men of this 

 age, is an improvement on the man of a hundred 

 years back ; his manners are more refined, his 

 ideas more enlarged, and many prejudices that 

 then existed no longer find place in the mind. 

 No doubt it is better to be a citizen of the 

 world than the denizen of a county only j but 



