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SCARBRO'. 



Not very long ago, Scarbro' was greatly amused 

 by the appearance of a young American lady, who 

 had come to England in the hope of persuading 

 the female part of our community to lay aside 

 for ever its own absurd costume, and to put on one 

 similar to that in which she then appeared. 



But, oh! — ye powers of bad taste and deformity! 

 This transatlantic new attire, will never suit the 

 wives, nor please the daughters, nor bend the 

 temper of stubborn Mr. Bull. 



Upright and confident in her pet cause, the 

 stranger actress stood before us, with a smirking 

 countenance, and fully bent on victory. 



It would require transcendent powers of pen, 

 (and I have them not), to give the reader an 

 adequate idea of the nymph in her new dress. 



Old Hogarth's pencil might have hit her off. 



The costume which this young lady had adopted, 

 might have suited an ambiguous character in a 

 fancy ball room ; neither masculine enough for 

 a man, nor sufficiently feminine for a woman. 

 * c (Elia, Lselia Crispis, nec puella, nec juvenis 

 and I may add, " nec anus." 



Had she presented herself, in the attire of 

 elegant simplicity, such as so well becomes some 

 ancient statues, whose flowing robes, show off the 

 female-form in all its just proportions, she might 



