Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-02-21
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON:.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 81, 1853.
The Travelling Snob.

Boulogne to Paris-from Paris to Rome
and so on but lie get out with the spleen,
and every object he passed by sas distorted
or discolored. lie gave an account Of them
but twas nothing but the account Of his
miserable feelings. l met SmelIfuugus iii
the grand portico Of the Pantheon-he Was
just coming out Of it. IT'S nothing Lu. a
huge cock pit,' said be-" Oh, Sterue, thi,
graph alone would stamp thee as sen.
sole man, even as it stamps Smellfurgus MS
Travelling snob.
1t is curious to mark one Of these Travel
ling Snobs, who has written some readable
books at home, and designs to come where
they have been issued ut twenty. five cents
per volume. Washington Irving or Cullen
Bryant my roam over Europe unn ticed
or unhonored, but DO sooner does tn.
Travelling Snob set foot upon our shores,
than every Sncb in the Republic crir g,s
before him. Pretending to admire bis
literary productions, they pay the sc fish
donkey sort CT reyerence-aud lie looks
patr. nizingly down upon them aud their
fellow. citizens, exhibiting his contemp, for
them oil, with an artl.ss cand,r refreshing
TO view. His lle,ho,ic folm moves WITH
awful dignity-his round stupid pink face
is like maguifed oyster-aEd lie glow.rs
through his spec,acles with vucuous look
charming to behold.
1t is vulgar prejudice that the Travel
ling SBob Genes here 10 pocket our cash
lie don't roam from ci y to city as the i'll
dus;r;ous bees oam flom flower to flower,
10 make money by honest toll, but he mag
unanimously fubs the funds that our hume
folks earn. And as an equivalent he re-
hashcs the private life of sume dissolute old
f"eies, peppe,ing his Yarns with indicate
illusions at which any honest woman should
tlush. This farrago is blurted out in de
faint drone, as if the lecturer thought his
audience should love and admire him exclu-
siveiy for condescending to address them, at
exhorbitant rates.
And the Travelling Snob, eated by bis
Cash receipts, criticises slashingy the works
OF arr which he sees, with glorious mix
tuIe Of jealous ignorance, malevolent con-
ceit, and refined puppyisu,. Has an uLel-
'uvasrd Yankee rrofanely dared to surpass
the equestrian statues of ''lIoli lIengland,
(Which stand perched upon three legs,) the
Travelled Snob is horror struck, anu cries
low habsolutely barbarous ~ Tien he
jocuiarly rididicules the costume, $50 dis
agre cable to his country folk at New Orleans
pcrhaps,) and pooh pouh's the very erect
and Gfe-like expression. so dear to US Ill.
How pleasing this indomitably insoleut crtl
ciom, SO peculiar to the arrogant subjects
OF her gracious M,jesty Victoria, Defender
Of the Faith, aud 81 forth.
The Travelling Snob reverences his am
ba.sador, before whom he humbIes his
T-cud self, until he is as humble as tiuuky
nnd as supple as harlequin. lie also
Courts the society Of any ''sohd man" who
las somehow secured senatorial chair, and
WHO is known in May Fair. Through the
craving rooms of those who are wealthy,
or in prominent Office, he wiggles On his
Wy, leavinga track of Shiny fattery where
ever he goes. Is he writing a book? Who
IN penetrate his mystery? Who knows
~hat is working behind those placid spec
Iacles, through which CLEAN inquisitive
eyes!
Letus open one of his past volumes, cleaned