Stray Papers Author:William Makepeace Thackeray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The National Standard Article i (saturday, May 4, 1833) LOUIS PHILIPPE. Here is Louis Philippe, the great Roi des Francais, (Roi de France is no lon... more »ger the phrase of the day ;) His air just as noble, his mien as complete, His face as majestic, his breeches as neat ; His hat just so furnished with badge tricolor, Sometimes worn on the side, sometimes sported before, But wherever 'tis placed, much in shape and in size, Like an overgrown pancake " saluting men's eyes." From hat down to boots, from his pouch to umbrella, He here stands before you, a right royal fellow. Like " the king in the parlour," he's fumbling his money, Like " the queen in the kitchen," his speech is all honey. Except when he talks it, like Emperor Nap, Of his wonderful feats at Fleurus and Jemappe ; But, alas ! all his zeal for the multitude's gone, And of no numbers thinking, except number one '. No huzzas greet his coming, no patriot-club licks The hand of " the best of created republics." He stands in Paris as you see him before ye, Little more than a snob—There's an end of the story. ARTICLE g (saturday, May n, 1833) ADDRESS. Under the "heading" of this National Standard of ours there originally appeared the following: "Edited by F. W. N. Bayley, Esq., the late editor and Originator of ' The National Omnibus,' the first of the cheap Publications ; assisted by the most eminent Literary men of the Day." Now we have change tout celti; no, not exactly tout cela ; for we still retain the assistance of a host of literary talent, but Frederick William Naylor Bayley has gone. We have got free of the Old Bailey, and changed the Governor. Let it not b imagined for a moment that we talk in the slightest disparagement of our predecesso...« less