This abomination has unquestionably been occasioned by the coarse-minded custom which sends alternate groups of males and females into the room.

Were the antique gallery thrown open to mixed parties of ladies and gentlemen, it would soon cease.

Till America has reached the degree of refinement which permits of this, the antique casts should not be exhibited to ladies at all.

I never felt my delicacy shocked at the Louvre, but I was strangely tempted to resent as an affront the hint I received, that I might steal a glance at what was deemed indecent.

Perhaps the arrangements for the exhibition of this room, the feelings which have led to them, and the result they have produced, furnish as good a specimen of the kind of delicacy on which the Americans pride themselves, and of the peculiarities arising from it, as can be found.