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character which, to judge from some of the 

 volumes, belongs to it, of being an epitome, as it 

 were, of historical, social, literary, commercial, 

 theological, theatrical, legal, and scandalous re- 

 cords (as in the very recent name of L'Abbesse 

 de Jouarre, which appertains to both literature 

 and scandal, and was happily bestowed upon a 

 daughter of Trappist and Festive). 



Take, for instance, such horses' names as Pot- 

 tinger. General Sale, Lady Sale, and Jellalabad, 

 Lee, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, Merrimac, 

 Monitor, and Kearsage, mtermingled with Sir 

 James Graham, Admiral Lyons, Sir Colin Camp- 

 bell, Nana Sahib, and the like, to remind us of 

 memorable historic events; Exhibition, Kohinoor, 

 and the like, to recall a great social and inter- 

 national movement ; Dickens and Anti-Dickens,, 

 with Nickleby, Nicholas, Pickwick, Oliver Twist, 

 Nancy, Dolly Varden, Barnaby Rudge, Mark 

 Tapley, Miss Miggs, Florence Dombey, Adam 

 Bede, and the like literary reminders ; Dr. Pusey, 

 Miss Sellon, and A. D. Wagner, to call to mind, 

 not very respectfully, theological controversies ; 

 and George Stephenson, George Hudson, and 

 Mrs. Hudson, to carry us back to the infancy of 



