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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GENT. BY ALBERT SMITH. LONDON: DAVID BOGUE, 86 FLEET STREET. MDCCCXLVII. LONDON: VIZETELLY BROTHERS AND CO. PRINTERS AND ENGRAVERS, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET. v …
WHAT THE GENT IS GENERALLY. The species of the human race, to the consideration of which we are about to draw the attention of the reader, is of all others the most unbearable, principally from an a…
OF THE MANNER BY WHICH GENTS ARE KNOWN. Experience proves that pictures are the best media for conveying information at the outset of tuition. Hence, in the study of Natural History, for instance, t…
OF THE CHIEF OUTWARD CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GENT. One has only to look into the advertisements of cheap tailors, and the windows of ticketed shops, to form a very good notion of the other principal …
OF THE GENT AT THE THEATRE. When the Promenade Concerts usurped the place of the regular Drama at our theatres, and Kœnig and Musard occupied the places of Kean and Macready—when Juliet was neglecte…
OF THE GENT, AFTER THE PLAY, AT A TAVERN. By the following signs may the Gent at this period be known: He walketh six abreast under the Piazza, singing a negro air in chorus; and, perchance, danceth…
OF THE GENT IN THE OPEN AIR. The most popular lounging thoroughfares of the west-end, such as Regent Street, the Burlington Arcade, Bond Street, or Piccadilly, are not those in which the Gents are t…
OF THE GENT WHO GOES TO THE RACES. The Gent who goes to the races must not be confounded with the Sporting Gent, of whom we may speak by-and-by. He knows nothing in the world about the running, nor …
OF CERTAIN GENTS IN SOCIETY. Once , when like Mr. Tennyson we were “waiting for the train at Coventry,” and thinking of Lady Godiva—the Gents would like to have peeped at Godiva—we saw a penny show o…
OF GENTS ON THE RIVER The grand gathering of Gents is only to be met with as one universal réunion of all their varieties, on board the Sunday steamboats. No city in the world produces so many holid…
