text:  Are our _employes_ less pompous and empty than Gil Blas and his companions? our squires less absurd and ignorant than the hidalgoes of Valencia? Let any one read some of the pamphlets on Archbishop Whately's Logic or attend an examination in the schools at Oxford and then say if the race of those who plume themselves on the discovery that Greek children cried when they were whipped is extinct? To be sure as the purseproud insolence of a _nouveau riche_ and indeed of _parvenus_ generally is quite unknown among us nobody could rely on those points of resemblance