CHAPTER I. 



Introductory. 



" Errors like straws upon the surface flow, 

 He who would search for Pearls must dive below." 



Dry den. 



HERE is perhaps, no instinct implanted 

 in the human breast more powerful 

 than the love of admiration ; there 

 is certainly none more ancient and universal. It 

 is a passion more or less strongly developed in 

 every one of us — in the savage who rejoices in 

 his tattooing, and barters his gold for beads and 

 ostrich feathers ; in the Red Indian, who regards 

 the ring in his nose as the higtjest emblem of 

 nobility ; and equally in the fashionable lady, 

 arrayed in all the beautiful creations of Parisian 

 millinery. 



To furnish becoming material wherewith to 



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