life in these young bucks of 1823 which contrasts strangely with
our feelings of 1860. Here, for instance, is a specimen of their
talk and walk, "`If,' says LOGIC -- `if enjoyment is your motto,
you may make the most of an evening at Vauxhall, more than at any
other place in the metropolis. It is all free and easy. Stay as
long as you like, and depart when you think proper.' -- `Your
description is so flattering,' replied JERRY, `that I do not care
how soon the time arrives for us to start.' LOGIC proposed a
`bit of a stroll' in order to get rid of an hour or two, which
was immediately accepted by Tom and Jerry. A turn or two in Bond
Street, a stroll through Piccadilly, a look in at TATTERSALL's, a
ramble through Pall Mall, and a strut on the Corinthian path,
fully occupied the time of our heroes until the hour for dinner
arrived, when a few glasses of TOM's rich wines soon put them on
the qui vive. VAUXHALL was then the object in view, and the TRIO
started, bent upon enjoying the pleasures which this place so
amply affords."

How nobly those inverted commas, those italics, those capitals,
bring out the writer's wit and relieve the eye! They are as good
as jokes, though you mayn't quite preceive the point. Mark the
varieties of lounge in which the young men indulge -- now a
stroll, then a look in, then a ramble, and presently a strut.
When George, Prince of Wales, was twenty, I have read in an old
Magazine, "the Prince's lounge" was a peculiar manner of walking
which the young bucks imitated. At Windsor George III. had a
cat's path -- a sly early walk which the good old king took in
the grey morning before his household was astir. What was the
Corinthian path here recorded? Does any antiquary know? And
what were the rich wines which our friends took, and which enable