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High Life in European Capitals.

they were ike grams OF RunpoWder
separately smutty and contemplate
but mass them and they were terrible.
Uttered in that period when the thun-
der of the Napoleonic guns might al
most be heard across the channel the
poignancy of the description met with
little rebuke, however inapt or out of
drawing it may now appear to be. But
as applied to a considerable class OF
Frenchmen, of whom Counl Paul Vasili
is at present the most fragrant exam
pie, the first part of the Characterization
seems to fit very well indeed. He is a
chroniclor OF the incidents of high life
OF various European capitals, London
being the latest field Of hls sinister OBJ
serYations. His chronicles are printed
in the Nouvelle Revue in Paris, and
they contain evil stories about almost
every prominent figure in London 80
ciety. Even Gladstone, whose exalted
worth in private as well as in public
life has been an article of British faith
since Macaulay, writing of aim so
years ago, spoke Of him "as young
man of unblemished character,
the rising hopes of those stern and I'M
bending Tories" who how hate him 90
cordially, does not escape the enven-
omed sarrows of this social crusader.
Ho says that the grand old man is fond
of billets-dOuX, and is very sly when
Mrs. Gladstone is not around. This is
the most ambitious flight which any
scandalmOnger Of modern times has
ventured, eClipsing the most imagina-
tive exploits OF the late Count Horace
We'll Castel, historian Of the scandals of
The court Of tho Second Empire, who
seems to have had his ear at every Pa
risian koyhole and to have listened to
considerable purpose. The Frencbs gov
eminent excludes from its territory the
book of tho dead Count Horace, which
was published in Belgium, expanding
into many volumes, but it sees no objec-
tons to the publication OF the lucuDra-
lions of the living Count Paul, as the
first related to domestic and the latter
TO foreign scandals, q distinction of
much Importance In the eyes of
those who have the licensing
of books in the French
capital. Which of these titled social
fl ssh-fles is the greater blackguard it
would be difficult to say, but each is
worthy Of the other, both meeting with
sufficient fidelity the preliminary por-
tion of Coleridge's description. Count
Paul might as well nave invaded the
Brompton oratory and ascribod light
conduct TO Cardinal Newman or inn
pugned tho chastity OF the archbishop
of Canterbury as to have challenged the
decorum OF MIR. Gladstone's private life.
| He Is the most blameless as well as one
of the greatest ministers whose name
has ever adorned the bead roll of Great
Britain or any other land, and naughty
stories about him seem as ridiculous as
II they were rehearsed of st. John, of
Nepomne, or the hermit of Mount
Athos. The count by 40 means OK
hausts his resources in telling stories
about the prime minister. He has some
sinister revelations to make about
almost everybody OF any prominence.
or the Prince Of Wales he says that he
possesses precisely that degree of inn
maxability which ~ becoming In a
prince, and Is as accomplished connois-
sour of female charms AZ his predecessor
George Nv. OF the stout, somnolent old
Duke of Cambridge ne says 1t Is no un-
common thing for him, after dinner, to
make cushion Of the ivory shoulders
of the lady who happens to sit next TO
} him, so imperative Is his need OF long
season of slumber after the repast. Or
the Duke OF Edinburgh he says that he
was born with fiddle in ono hand and
an oar in the other, and that while he
is without his brothers disposition 10
gallantry he can drink on occasions like
an old tar, getting away with as many
: bottles as the best of them. Like
his thrifty and frugal mother, the
: Duke has been commonly known
to be "littie near developing that
disposition in his early youth, when he
got the best of his school companions in
: his little trades, aud lent Thorn money
at rates of interest which absorbed the
= principal twice over in about three
weeks. Count Paul treats this harm
u 4 Il.
l ing him as misor who will not give
4 the customary shilling to the attendant
when he visits q picture gallery, WheT
his majestic mother-in-law, the en-
4 press of Russia, came To visit her daugh
l ter, he charged her for her board, in
) Guiding round price for her farewell
, luncheon. or old Duke Ernst, of Sax
) Coburg Gotha, brother of Prince Al
bert, and uncle OF almost everybody, h
; says that no Is potentate OF miserabl,
, heart, narrow soul ana diseased mind
aud that the quickest road to his favo
' IS to buy horses OF HIM, when he viii
| cheat you and thereafter regard yoi
; with degree OF appreciation measured
! by the amount OF your purchases. II,
! makes merchandise of his decorations
using rs his agent in the sale of them NJ
= eX-cotloe-house waiter, and introduces
. his cher amis into society az his illegiti
I, mate daughters, by way OF giving then
1 dignihed and unequivocal status. Ii,
: has stories 10 tell about everybody: Lore
. Coleridge, Sir Charles Dixie, Gladly
Lady Lousdale, clgar-smoking daughte
Q OF prim Herbert Sponcer-spurner o
. conventionalitios In extraordinary Il
British society at large, who was mar
9 ried TO Lord Fltzwilliam; eldest son o
the earl OF Ripon, one OF the riches
young mobiles in England-and In fac
, OF almost everybody else In the British
: capital who is worth talking about. IL,
, has performed a similar service for SOM
of the other European capitals, and |!
likely to bestow his attention on still
I, others as soon as the indignation of the
society which he has so morcilossly anC
, unscrupulously described shall have
; made London an uncomfortable resi-
denoe for him. Brooklyn Eagle.
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