THE BOOK OF SNOBS.
BY ONE OF THEMSELVES.
PREFATORY REMARKS.
[The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the, individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloguence—I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for the work and the man—Snobs have to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and area part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes—Affecting instance of Colonel Snobley.]
We have all read a statement, (the authenticity of which I take leave to doubt entirely, for upon what calculations I should like to know is it founded?)—we have all, I say, been favoured by perusing a remark, that when the times and necessities of the world call for a Man, that individual is found. Thus at the French Revolution, (which the reader will be pleased to have introduced so early) when it was requisite to administer a corrective dose to the nation, Robespierre was found a most foul and nauseous dose indeed, and swallowed eagerly by the patient, greatly to the latter's ultimate advantage: thus, when it became necessary to kick John Bull out of America, Mr. Washington stepped forward, and performed that job to satisfaction: thus when the Earl of Aldborough was unwell, Professor Holloway appeared with his pills, and cured his Lordship, as per advertisement, &c., &c. Numberless instances might be adduced to show, that when a nation is in great want, the relief is at hand, just as
