The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844: Volume 23, Number 4Various
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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844: Volume 23, Number 4
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It _yawns_ merely, it would seem; and the only care requisite
is, to be absent when its jaws close! 'The 'gator isn't what you may call
a _han'some_ critter, but there's a great deal of _openness_ when he
smiles!' The _smile_ of an alligator!! . . . 'Cleanliness,' says FULLER,
'is godliness;' and he is not far out of the way; for no man, we think,
can be a dirty Christian. In a moral and religious point of view, then, we
are doing good service in calling public attention to the spacious baths
of Mr. CHARLES RABINEAU, at the Astor-House, and at his new establishment
at Number 123 Broadway, Albany. Go wash in them and be clean, reader, and
thank us for the joy which you will experience, when you shall have come
out of the water and gone your ways. . . . ONE of the late London
pictorial publications contains a portrait of Sir HUDSON LOWE, the
notorious keeper of NAPOLEON, the Emperor of the French, at St. Helena. It
is in perfect keeping with the generally received estimate of the
character of that functionary. The wretched thatch that disfigures without
concealing the intellectual poverty of his narrow skull; the scowling
features; the ragged penthouse brows; are 'close denotements' of the truth
of 'Common Report.' In short, judging from the much-bepraised 'likeness'
to which we allude, if Sir HUDSON LOWE was not a tyrant, and a
small-minded one withal, GOD doesn't write a legible hand. . . . SOME
clever wag in the last BLACKWOOD has an article, written in a hurry, upon
the _hurriedness_ of literary matters in these our 'go-ahead' days.
'People,' he says, 'have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned
things called books, but even to read them. Instead of cutting new works
page by page, they cut them altogether:
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