MOSCOW. 
tradesman, with an old duenna, or nurse, who 
is found in almost every family. It was 
executed by his artist, Geisler. With that good 
humour which always characterized him, finding 
the women unwilling to have their figures deli- 
neated, he caused Mrs. Pallas to assume the 
dress of the young wife, and he put on his own 
person the habit of the duenna-, thus affording 
a scenic representation, in which the persons 
of the drama, although strongly caricatured, 
are, the Professor and his Wife. 
The amusements of the people are those of 
children ; that is to say, of English children ; 
for in Paris and Naples the author has witnessed 
similar amusements; grave senators and states- 
men being sometimes seen mounted upon 
wooden horses, round-abouts, and ups-and-doivns, 
with the lower order of inhabitants. It will 
be said, the English are a grave people; but 
a better reason may perhaps be assigned for 
the want of such infantine sports at our wakes 
and fairs. Certainly there is no part of our 
island where men of forty and fifty years of 
age would be seen riding on a wooden horse, 
or chuckling in a vaulting-chair. Three Rus- 
sians, at the same time, will squeeze themselves 
into one of those chairs, and, as they are 
whirled round, scream for joy, like infants 
