A Hint to Phrenologists
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Phrenology, Class |
Suggests the aristocracy's sudden interest in jewellery (itself prompted by the costly order made by Emperor Nicholas I of Russia from a London jewellers) illustrates their possession of developed organs of 'snuff-box-ativeness'. | |
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