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op of the milk of human kindness in it. It out-Trolloped Trollope, and in downright misrepresentation and abuse threw Hall and Maryatt into the shade. As a specimen of wit and humor, it was beneath contempt. He came back at us in the same style in "Martin Chuzzlewit." Instead of a Damascus blade of bright and trenchant satire, he cut us up with a rusty butcher-knife, which, considering us a nation of swine, he probably thought the most appropriate weapon. Forgetting his own caricature in Pickwick of French travelers in England, he himself enacted the part of Count Smorltork in America. He gravely declared in his veracious sketches that all American men chew tobacco and talk through their noses, and that all American women are ignorant. He spoke of public journals in the North as the Sewer, the Stabber, the Family Spy, the Private Listener, the Peeper, the Plunderer, the Keyhole Reporter, the Rowdy Journal — a nomenclature possibly suggested by his own character and instincts. He