an in their mere bodily presence almost intolerable to be borne and in proportion to the estimate we form thb women of i and of real society and companionship and sympathy of feeling is the dread we entertain of association with mere animal life in its human form while nothing of this fellowship of feeling is experienced there cannot however be a greater mistake in the science of being agreeable than to suppose that conversation must be made a business of oh the misery of being against a professional one who looks from side to side until a vacant ear is found and a battery of if you will not answer and of argument if you will indeed the immense variety of from ill managed conversation are a sufficient proof of its importance in society and any one disposed to dispute this fact need only recall the many familiar instances of disappointment and which all who mix in any manner with what is called the world must have experienced from mistaken views of what is agreeable in conversation it would be vain to attempt an of the different aspects under which this peculiar kind of annoyance presents itself a few heads will be sufficient under which to range the different classes of first then we naturally think of those who have obtained the conventional of or to describe them more politely the class of whose over solicitude is to their difficulty in obtaining patient hearers these again may be into endless varieties of which a few specimens will suffice yet amongst all these even the most may be found worthy individuals i too of whose for both and are by no means entitled to distinction in the art of annoyance are tbe � those who not only ride a bat expect every hie they meet with to mount and ride the same it matters not whether their ruling subject be painting or except that minds devoted to the fine arts have generally about them some delicacy a� to the reception of their and are too alive to the it may receive to risk its introduction without some indication of a welcome still are exceptions even to this rule and nothing can be more wearisome to the or more unintelligible to the ear than the poured forth by an amateur painter without regard to the tastes or the of those around him perhaps his fellow traveller is seated on some gentle eminence drinking in the deep quiet of a summer s evening not merely from sight but sound and all with memories of the past in which no stranger could when the painter bursts upon him with his and the illusion is gone he about the breadth of the colouring his companion sees the long tall shadows of the trees reflected on the sloping with the golden sunset gleaming in between the stems and through the of the foliage and he knows not where the poetry or even the truth of this wonderful property of breadth can be the painter upon the bringing out of the distant cottage firom the wood his companion is of opinion it would be better to let it remain the women of england where it is � half hid in the retirement of the forest and sending up as it seems from the very of the silent shade its wreath of curling smoke to indicate the social scene beneath its rustic roof prepared for by the lighting of the s fire but the painter is not satisfied he calls upon his friend to observe the of the whole he must have the outline broken the thing is done his sketch is exhibited in triumph and he on with delight for he has the hills in twain and placed a group of robbers on the broken ground alas how should his companion believe or understand his thoughts are upon that scene because its sloping hills and cultivated fields and gardens and or and village church yard are like the spot where he was bom and where his father died � and he sees no mountain nor chief nor hears the rush of torrents on the breeze but his eye dwells again upon the apple tree in its spring bloom and the upon the and his ear is open to the of the wood pigeon on the boughs and the sound of voices � than all other sounds more sweet � the voices that spoke kindly of his childhood it might be supposed that if under any circumstances the society of a painter could be always welcome it would be amongst the varied scenes of a picturesque tour but even here the mind has pictures of its own and he who is perpetually telling you what to see might as well force upon you at every view the use of his and neither allow you to gaze upon nature as you wish to behold it nor as it really is women are perhaps less men to annoy � of others with pet subjects because they have less opportunity ai out any particular branch of art or study to the of others and politics that most and oi is seldom a theme with them they have however their houses and their servants and what is infinitely worse � they have themselves s accustomed to a little private admiration in a remote comer of the world they obtain a estimate of their own importance and act as if they thought no subject so interesting as that which turns upon their own experience their own peculiarities or even their own faults it does not always follow that such women admire themselves so much as the of self in their conversation would at first lead us to suppose for in upon the good qualities of others they exclaim � and why should we doubt their sincerity � how much they wish they were like the beings they they will even speak of 