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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 19: January-June, 1846 One of the s tators, pointing at a small figure of a man, ever strut ting and gobbling ike aturkey cock Oh! How roll, ' cried he. Indeed, I believe you; but do not go too near. Monkeys bite. This one, however, is not, naturally, speculatively, or sgstematically, very bad; that would be to be something, and to be somet ing, always binds one; he has neither rancour nor pit neither love nor hatred. A state monkey, a monkey with a rtfolio; an for a rtfolio never hesitating to betra the state; no one w els about, jumps a ut, and grins like him. His tric s are innumerable. N ow, see how he is admired. So soon as he appears, how gratified, how transported are the Batons of this Bertrand! (an allusion to La Fon taine's fable of the Monkey and the Cats.) That one particularly on the left, so very neat, so well furred, so solemn, so full of nothing, I mean of himself. As to Bertrand, he laughs, he jokes, he promises chesnuts. To promise is that which costs him least. Cynicism, in him, does not sur prise, it is so natural to him; it constitutes his strength, his pride, his se ductiveness, his gracefulness. Stranger to every thing that has a name in god or evil, he escapes indi ation, and even contempt; he sneaks under. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.