text:  "If such celebrations " says the Marquis "are proper why not do equal honour to a Shakspeare a Pitt a Newton or any of those illustrious men by whose superior intelligence society has so greatly profited?" The obvious truth is that such "celebrations" are not to our taste that there is something burlesque to our ideas in this useless honour; and that we think a bonfire a discharge of squibs or even a discharge of rhetoric and a display of tinsel banners and buffoonery does not supply the most natural way of reviving the memory of departed genius