by barristers, solicitors, &c., but who are they? Why, the scum of the profession to which they belong, and it would be a great mistake of any one who saw them there to conclude that such places are supported by respectable men of any rank or calling. The most repulsive thing about American drinking is its slanginess, and this is what often deceives the casual visitor. Drinks containing in reality very little alcohol are baptized with names that savour of dissoluteness and debauchery. Gin-slings, cocktails, tangle-legs, eye-openers, morning glories, are suggestive of drinking debauches over-night and tippling renewed at daybreak, whereas the truth is that the drinking habits of some States really resemble those of the more sober Continental countries. In winter or in bad weather, drinks are consumed too freely indeed which contain a certain proportion of alcohol, whilst in summer the beverages are to a large extent what are known here as “temperance drinks.” Their passion for advertising, too, would lead a stranger to suppose that the Americans are a nation of inveterate drunkards who glory in their shame. “Bitters,” says one of the authors we have quoted, “are advertised in every newspaper, placarded on every shed, painted in enormous letters on every fence and rock where a human eye may be expected to rest. I sometimes encountered these advertisements in Southern swamps and Western prairies, where one would imagine the only customers would be polecats, ‘bars’ (bears), or buffaloes.” It is said that in a graveyard in Gloucester, Mass., the following advertisement meets the eye of the visitor:—“If you would keep out here, use Hochstetter’s bitters.”[343] Yes; but it is also “said” that somewhere in an English churchyard there is the following characteristic epitaph:— “Beneath this stone, in hopes of Zion, Doth rest the landlord of the Lion: Resigned unto the heavenly will, His son keeps on the business still.”