pastime; Aladdin's lamp transmuted not vulgar objects into a more golden substance. We luxuriate in the choicest society, without the drawback of etiquette; we revive the dreams of youth while in the very bustle of the world; we practically realize what a kingdom the mind is, without any technical aid.

THE DRUDGE AND THE DUKE.

Give up this false idolatry of self,
Which makes your brother nothing!

SCHILLER.

III.

THE DRUDGE AND THE DUKE.

LIFE in England is twofold: one side is best represented by a process, the other by an environment. The former indicates the secret of her internal resources, the chief direction of her productive labor; and the latter exhibits the most imposing form of her individual wealth. To realize these two significant phases of human existence in Great Britain, we must view them in contrast, and this is done by passing from a manufacturing district to a large rural estate, from the drudge to the duke. All that intervenes between these elements of civilization and extremes of fortune, with the exception of commerce, whose phenomena are best observed at the seaports, a careful glance at the scenery discernible even in our rapid transit from one sphere to the other, will reveal.

To an American eye, the most remarkable trait of the landscape in England is, the comparative ab