The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-25

tain point If the House of Lords, how much
more does the throne, survive only by popular
permission? And in England the question
has very nearly become one of economy
merely Is permanent executive prefera-
BILE? Is the pageant of royalty desirable, or
even longer practicable, for such an execu-
tive?
Champagne Charlie had better be satisfied
with salary of seven or eight hundred thou
sand dollars a year for doing nothing in the
most offensive manner. There were Eng
lishmen living in America who asked, ''Why
should we be taxed without representation p
There are Englishmen living in England who
ask, 'What do we gain by paying such enor-
nous sums to such a Champagne Prince
Charlie p
This year Amherst, like the other colleges,
was very chary of her Doctors degree
Whether the colleges have at length heard the
tone of derision with which the public has
latterly received their profuse honors of this
kind; whether they have learned that the
solemn comforting of the double Doctorate
has come to be considered a mere "ealing of
names whether they agree at last with Ian
dor, who wrote to Southey that ''the Univer-
sity of Oxford ought to purchase an estate for
you IN the country, as a reward for becoming
one of its Doctors; or whether the increase
of the population is not rapid enough to
supply candidates, it is observable that the
crop of Doctors in this yearis very small. On
the other hand, the hay and apple crops are
very large, and a philosophical country will
undoubtedly endeavOr to set the gain against
the loss. Indeed, the most philosophic of
citizens might, perhaps, seriously hesitate be-
tween an offer of a barrel of Baldwins or
greetings and the Doctorate of laws.
One of the most uncomfortable incidents
of being double Doctor, however, the Easy
Chair has sometimes remarked to be the ig-
| norance of other people of that distinction.
To wrap your honorary degree like talent in a
napkin, and bury it in the earth. defeats its very
purpose; and yet who can wear it upon his
| sleeve? The Doctors themselves are certainly
willing it should be known; but how?
The most common device to publish the fact
of the Doctorate is apparently the issuing of
a book In this case the important fact ap-
pears, as it were, merely incidentally and by
chance. Yet it is really the point of the book.
At least, if the intelligent reader will turn
| over the series of works by Ever So Many
People, LID, it will be difficult for him
to determine why they were published,
except to communicate to the public,
what would not otherwise be so mo-
destly advertised, that Ever SO Many
wholly avoid the dilemma; because how are
the public to be compelled not only to read
book but to remark the details of the title
page? Not everybody gets the title correctly
and how many can be expected to make the
proper distinctions, for instance, between
S. Z. d. and LII. d. and PHI. d. at the end
of a mans name, when even his friends
blunder about the letters in the name
itself? If, for instance, your name is
| David Daniel Douglas, how many Of
your correspondents will not persistently write
ID. d. Douglass, Esquire, although at least
once a month you sign it in full with one s.
An ingenious friend of the Easy Chair, who
is often troubled is this way, has his tranquil
revenge by always doubling the final letters
of both the offenders names; so thatif Henry
Higgins directs to him as ID. d. Douglass, his
reply is addressed, Henry Higginss, Esquire.
This, he remarks, often brings themto reason.
But since the public cannot be compelled
! to read could not his attention be attracted
10y classifying such books as the works of the
LII. d. Might there not be the Poetical
Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific
IL. d. series? Yes, remarks a cynic at the
Chairs elbow, and so set off the books that
no gentleman's library should be without by
those that none would contain; and alas (!
how the market for trunk Innings would be
! glutted