Then it is that one would like to imitate the mode of life of the native at Sierra Leone, as somebody has described it: stroll into the market in natural costume,--buy a water-melon for a halfpenny,--split it, and scoop out the middle,--sit down in one half of the empty rind, clap the other on one's head, and feast upon the pulp.
-- I see some of the London journals have been attacking some of their literary people for lecturing, on the ground of its being a public exhibition of themselves for money.

A popular author can print his lecture; if he deliver it, it is a case of quaestum corpore, or making profit of his person.

None but "snobs" do that.
Ergo, etc.

To this I reply,--Negatur minor.

Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen, exhibits herself to the public as a part of the service for which she is paid.