[Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDomestic Manners of the Americans CHAPTER 7 6/10
When he shewed them to his colleague, he shook his head, and said, "Very goot, very goot in Europe, but America boys and gals vill not bear it, dey will do just vat dey please; Suur, dey vould all go avay next day." "And you will not enforce these regulations _si necessaires_, Monsieur ?" "Olar! not for de vorld." "_Eh bien_, Monsieur, I must leave the young republicans to your management." I heard another anecdote that will help to show the state of art at this time in the west.
Mr.Bullock was shewing to some gentlemen of the first standing, the very _elite_ of Cincinnati, his beautiful collection of engravings, when one among them exclaimed, "Have you really done all these since you came here? How hard you must have worked!" I was also told of a gentleman of High Cincinnati, TON and critical of his taste for the fine arts, who, having a drawing put into his hands, representing Hebe and the bird, umquhile sacred to Jupiter, demanded in a satirical tone, "What is this ?" "Hebe," replied the alarmed collector.
"Hebe," sneered the man of taste, "What the devil has Hebe to do with the American eagle ?" We had not been long at Cincinnati when Dr.Caldwell, the Spurzheim of America, arrived there for the purpose of delivering lectures on phrenology.
I attended his lectures, and was introduced to him.
He has studied Spurzheim and Combe diligently, and seems to understand the science to which he has devoted himself; but neither his lectures nor his conversation had that delightful truth of genuine enthusiasm, which makes listening to Dr.Spurzheim so great a treat.
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