proverbial. But history is not taken down in shorthand as it
occurs, and it sometimes lags a little. The modern American small
boy is a vastly different being from either of these
transatlantic worthies; at all events his most prominent
characteristics, as they strike a stranger, are not illustrated
in the earlier period of their career.

The peculiarities of young America would, indeed, matter but
little to the stranger if young America stayed at home. But young
America does not stay at home. It is not necessary to track the
American small boy to his native haunts in order to see what he
is like. He is very much in evidence even on this side the
Atlantic. At certain seasons he circulates in Europe with the
facility of the British sovereign; for the American nation
cherishes the true nomadic habit of travelling in families, and
the small boy is not left behind. He abounds in Paris; he is
common in Italy; and he is a drug in Switzerland. He is an
element to be allowed for by all who make the Grand Tour, for his
voice is heard in every land. On the Continent, during the
season, no first-class hotel can be said to be complete without
its American family, including the small boy. He does not,
indeed, appear to "come off" to his full extent in this country,
but in all Continental resorts he is a small boy that may be
felt, as probably our fellow-countrymen all over Europe are now
discovering.

There is little use in attempting to disguise the fact that the
subject of the present paper is distinctly disagreeable. There is
little beauty in him that we should desire him. He is not only
restless himself, but he is the cause of restlessness in others.