S?4 HOUTK TLTUKAL TOUR. 



sent they arc certainly much more useful to the populace 

 of Paris than to his Majesty ; but the King is the Father 

 of his People, and his children of all ranks think they have 

 a right to romp about in his v garden. They do so in the 

 most innocent style imaginable. Those who know how 

 liable every public walk around Edinburgh is to all sorts 

 of dilapidation and destruction that the youthful mind can 

 invent, or that mischievous hands can perpetrate, will 

 readily excuse our expressing some surprise at seeing ill- 

 dressed lads and ragged boys brushing freely along among 

 pieces of beautiful sculpture and rare exotics. But al- 

 though tout le ?no7id passes to and fro through this garden, 

 no injury, we are assured, is ever done to the fine plants or 

 to the invaluable groups of statues. Nor is this to be 

 ascribed wholly or even principally to the vigilance of 

 the military guards. The Parisian children seem to be 

 trained up with a reverential awe of doing injury to any 

 public work or promenade. The most tatterdemalion- 

 looking youths may be seen staring at the flowers and the 

 statues, but they never touch : they would even rebel 

 against any one who should presume to do so. This trait 

 of character certainly forms a striking contrast to what oc- 

 curs at our Modern Athens ; and to the superior educa- 

 tion of youth which we justlv boast, due care to produce 

 this salutary impression on the tender mind, remains to be 

 added. 



On leaving the palace garden, we passed along the 

 Quays of the Tuilcries and the Louvre. Here the officers 

 of the customs (or tide-waiters, as we would call them) 

 have ornamented their wooden-huts, by forming them into 



little arbours, covered with Cobbea srandens, intermixed 



v\Kh th( - irld bean and nasturtium, 



