, 1860-11-16
Gbir:a,9n Gributte.
TAacl5cray Revlsirs Calnla-1 Pleaannt
&ketNBa.

Thac'keray He'tst1s e n,c,, cnlni@'-A fiea'ant
The last Roundabout Paper" in the co77hW
narzates the experiences Of Thaekeray In Calais
IN this pleasant fashion: e.
"And is 1t not with writer's a. with Taeon-
teurs7 Ought they not 10 have their ingenu-
GUS modcsty! May authors tell old stories,
and how many times ovcry When I come to
look ut place which ! have visited my time
these twenty or thirty yeats, recall not the
l,iacc merely, but the sensations had ut hrst
seeing it. and which are quite different to my
feelings to-day That first day 1T Calais; the
voices Of the women crying out ut night, IS
The vessel cnme alongside the pier tue supper
1T Quillacu's and the favor Of the outlets and
vine: the red calico canopy under which !
slept; the tiled door; and the fresh smell Of
The sheets: the wonderful postillion' in his
}ack-boots and pigtail-ollr return with perfec:
cleaInces to my mind, aud i an seeing them,
and not tbs objects which arc actually under
33x.c is Calais. Yonder is that commits
e.uucr have known this score Of year,. Here
arc the women screaming and bust1ing over
the baggage; the people ut the passport bar
ricr who take your papers. Ny good people,
l hardly see you. 4on no moro Interest INC
tItau dozen orange women in Covcnt Garden,
OF shop look-kecper in oxford: street But
you make ME think Of time when you were
Indeed wonderful to bchold-when the little
French soldiers wore white cockadcs in their
slakoes-whcn the diligence was forty hours
going to Paris and tue Ereat-booted postilllou,
with Lis juruns, his ends Of rope for the lar.
.css, and his clubbed pfstail, was 4 wonderful
being, aud productive Of endless amusement
You youpg folks don't remember the apple
girls who used to follow the diligence up the
i!ill beyond Boulogne, and the delights Of tie
jolly road? In making continental journeys
with young folks, an oldster may be very quiet,
and, 10 outward appearance melancholy: but
really be haB gone back to the days Ut his
youth, and be is seventeen or eighteen years
ofage {as tho case may bel and Is amusing
l,iuscf with all his might He is noting the
horses as they come squealing out Of the post
house yard at midnight; he is enjoying the
lua1llng ad Ii5itttns tie rich table dhotc wine;
lie lis halcfellow with the conductor, and alive
to Mi the incidents Of the road-
IA man can't he aliye in 1850 and 1880 att the
same time, don't you see? Bodily, may be
in 1860 inert, silent, torpid but in the spirit
am walking, about in 1sss, let ns say-ln blue
dress coat and brass button5, Il 6weet-1Sured
silk waistcoat (which button round slim
waist With perfect casc), looking ut beautiful
lrings with giyot sleeves and tca.tray hats u1i-
der the golden chestnuts Of the Tui11cries, or
rnund tic Place Vcndome, where he drapeau
t.0rc IS floating from the 6tatuelesS column.
Shall We 60 and dino ut Bombarda's; near the
Hotel Brcteuil, or 1t the Cafe Virginie: Away!
Bombarda's and the Hotel Bretcui1 have been
pulled down ever so long: They knocked
down the poor old Virginic Coffcc-house last
year. Ny spirit goes. and dimes there. My
body, perhaps, is sealed with ever SO many
pcople IN i railway carriage, and no won
DER my companions tlud me dull and silent.
Have you read Mr.. Dale Owens Footsteps
on the Confines Of Another World" {My
dear Sir, it will make your lair stand quite re-
freshingly on end.} In that work you will
read that when gcntlcnlen's or 1adies' spirits
travel of few score or thousand miles to
visit friend, their bodies liz quiet und In 4
torpid stale In their beds or in their arm chairs
ut home. 50, in this way, an absent Ny
soul whisks away thirty years back into thu
past. I am looking Ont auxionsly for beaEd.
! am getting past the aye nf loying Byron's
poelns and pretend that Ike Wordsworth
and Shelley much better. Nothing l eat or
drink lin reason) dieagrces with me: and
know whom think to be the most lovely crea-
tire In the world. Al, deaT maid (of that re.
mote but well-remcmbcrcd perlod} are you
wife or widow now Arc you dead?- ARE you
thin and wlthercd and old !-or are you grown
much stouter, with 4 falsc front? and so
firth y