LITERARY SNOBS—WHAT A SENSIBLE WRITER SAYS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3009, 7 October 1878, Page 4

LITERARY SNOBS—WHAT A SENSIBLE WRITER SAYS.

There are many kinds of snobs. Mr Thackeray classified them, we believe, and one of the most offensive is, after all, the ■nob of superior knowledge. The snob of good clothes is at least readily in : spected, and we can certify to the skill of his tailor; the snob of wealth—we can at .least hope that the tax assessor makes him smart with it. But the snob of ■uperior knowledge — the fellow who lies in wait for you with that ineffable disdain of infancy when it lisps, "I know thttathing you don't'-*----has at once one of the most irritating and intractable of social qualities. Ke was strongly represented among the newspaper fraternity at the great exhibition, and had no end of fun watching the com- ' monality of people; rural and urban, looking at things. Suppose Mrs Farmer Smith—-who never saw an oil painting before in her life, and who haß left a wellstocked milk-room at horne —suppose sbe does get puzzled over the painting of "Pan and Bacchante," is the woman to be made a laughing stock by somebody with the run.of the types, who has not half her grasp on ,the times and the eternities? Suppose she does pronounce Niobe in two syllables, and passes with indifference a thousand things which a little 'travel schools the world to take a fashionable in-, terest in; hasn't she had her round of experience where she is an expert, and are they not as respectable, as creditable, and certainly as valuable jo the community at large as the vendor of a superficial cultyah ? Avast, and. let*s have no more jeering at our betters.—Ex.' . .