text:  The caricatures of caricatures of this Elysian state are numberless--imagination has been exhausted sense confounded grammar put on the rack the "well of English undefiled" stirred up from the very dregs to give the excluded pictures of the life of the exclusives--yet what have we? You will excuse us reader disturbing the current of our thoughts by recollecting any of this forty novel-power of inanity vulgarity and pertness; but if you take up any of the many volumes in marbled boards with calf backs that you will find in cart-loads at the circulating libraries and look over a page of the fashionable "_lingo_" the Lord Jacob talks to the Lady Suky or the conversation between Sir Silly Billy and the Honourable Snuffy Duffy; or what the Duke of Dabchick thinks of the Princess Molly; and when you are satisfied which we take it will be in the course of two pages if you do not throw down the book and swear by the Lord Harry--why then read on and be jolly! The indescribable absurdities vices and follies of the bulk of that class of literature called the fashionable novel are past the power of catalogue-makers to record; but perhaps overwhelming ignorance of the peculiar class they pretend to describe is not the least conspicuous