The Arkansas Banner

John Bull and Brother Jonathan.
The London Times, in the course of a review of a new work on American Scenes and Incidents, indulges in this pleasant strain:
"And, what is Brother Jonathan still in many respects but a great overgrown boy? He made his appearance at the great public school of all nations years ago, corn fed, full of impudence, with a shiny face, and showed his pluck by picking a quarrel with Master John Bull, a much bigger and stronger boy than himself. Well, after a smart bout, they were separated, and since then have not had another fight. God forbid they ever should! But John has often laughed at him unmercifully, forgetting that if Jonathan be awkward and ungainly, he, John cuts quite as queer a figure before foreigners on many occasions when, being a great deal older than Jonathan, he ought to know better. Lately, we are glad to say, John has behaved himself more like a gentleman, and when he visits Jonathan during the holidays, loves to see something to admire as well as laugh at—nay, when Jonathan delivers himself of such a rodomontade as that quoted above, John tries to keep countenance, or at most laughs in his sleeve, saying, 'Go it again, old fellow;' so that if things progress at their present rate, we shall have these two boys, with their arms around one another's neck, 'liquoring' together in all imaginable juleps, and calling one another 'old hoss,' instead of trying who can say the bitterest things against the other to rile him and 'raise his dander.'"