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couth as Caliban, oblivious of all forms, familiar to rudeness with his friends, and almost savage to his wife. The usual locality of his feet we forbear to mention, and his favorite postures are not sufficiently classic to be described in history. He selfishly consults no one's comfort but his own, and when the latter is interfered with, his indignation finds vent in utterances too profane to be registered. But when Mr. Lipscome is "gotten up" for a soirée, lo! the transformation! His patent-leather boots are not more highly polished than his demeanor. The elegance of his attire is almost eclipsed by the refinement of his deportment. He is not merely respectful to the gentler sex, but actually reverential; zealous in promoting their pleasure, and lavish of all those petits soins by which man expresses to woman his tender guardianship as a superior, and his flattering devotion as an inferior. Mr. Lipscome's grum silence gives place to a voluble persiflage which passes for agreeable conversation; and, as for any of the irreverent ejaculations with which he interspersed his discourse, when he wore a rusty outside, there's magic in that black suit, and those white kid gloves, to suppress such emphasis altogether. But let him put away his dress-coat, and be sure he will carefully lay his good breeding in lavender, by its side.

It is not difficult to solve the mystery of this marvellous mutation of manner with change of ap-