His talk, like his books, is full of pictures, his critical strokes masterly; allow for his point of view, and his survey is admirable.

He is a large subject; I cannot speak more or wiselier of him now, nor needs it; his works are true, to blame and praise him, the Siegfried of England, great and powerful, if not quite invulnerable, and of a might rather to destroy evil than legislate for good.

At all events, he seems to be what Destiny intended, and represents fully a certain side; so we make no remonstrance as to his being and proceeding for himself, though we sometimes must for us.
I had meant some remarks on some fine pictures, and the little I saw of the theatre in England; but these topics must wait till my next, where they may connect themselves naturally enough with what I have to say of Paris.
LETTER X.
MORE OF LONDON .-- THE MODEL PRISON AT PENTONVILLE .-- BATHING ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE POOR .-- ALSO ONE FOR WASHING CLOTHES .-- THE CRECHES OF PARIS, FOR POOR PEOPLE'S CHILDREN .-- OLD DRURY IN LONDON .-- SADLER'S WELLS .-- ENGLISH AND FRENCH ACTING COMPARED .-- MADEMOISELLE RACHEL .-- FRENCH TRAGEDY .-- ROSE CHENY .-- DUMAS .-- GUIZOT .-- THE PRESENTATION AT COURT OF THE YOUNG DUCHESS .-- BALL AT THE TUILERIES .-- AMERICAN AND FRENCH WOMEN .-- LEVERRIER .-- THE SORBONNE .-- ARAGO .-- DISCUSSIONS ON SUICIDE AND THE CRUSADES .-- REMUSAT .-- THE ACADEMY .-- LA MENNAIS .-- BERANGER .-- REFLECTIONS.
Paris.
When I wrote last I could not finish with London, and there remain yet two or three things I wish to speak of before passing to my impressions of this wonder-full Paris.
I visited the model prison at Pentonville; but though in some respects an improvement upon others I have seen,--though there was the appearance of great neatness and order in the arrangements of life, kindness and good judgment in the discipline of the prisoners,--yet there was also an air of bleak forlornness about the place, and it fell far short of what my mind demands of such abodes considered as redemption schools.

But as the subject of prisons is now engaging the attention of many of the wisest and best, and the tendency is in what seems to me the true direction, I need not trouble myself to make prude and hasty suggestions; it is a subject to which persons who would be of use should give the earnest devotion of calm and leisurely thought.
The same day I went to see an establishment which gave me unmixed pleasure; it is a bathing establishment put at a very low rate to enable the poor to avoid one of thee worst miseries of their lot, and which yet promises _to pay_.

Joined with this is an establishment for washing clothes, where the poor can go and hire, for almost nothing, good tubs, water ready heated, the use of an apparatus for rinsing, drying, and ironing, all so admirably arranged that a poor woman can in three hours get through an amount of washing and ironing that would, under ordinary circumstances, occupy three or four days.
Especially the drying closets I contemplated with great satisfaction, and hope to see in our own country the same arrangements throughout the cities, and even in the towns and villages.