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 after its reviver, who never personally wore it—the imperial, as if to denote to the people that they were to have the smallest possible share in the empire.

With every attempt at freedom on the Continent, the Beard re-appears; it was one of the most effective standards in the war of freedom, when Germany rose against Napoleon. In 1830, it was partially revived in France, and later still it has made many a perjured continental monarch "quake and tremble in his capital," and reminded him that in spite of neglected promises and false oaths, the reign of injustice "hangs but on a hair," of which the police will not always be able to check the free growth.

I have now merely to notice very briefly, four modern objections to the Beard.

I. "That it is less cleanly than shaving." To this, the answer is, that depends upon the wearer; and it will take less time to keep clean, than to shave, especially where, as