It was then that I first heard Thackeray's name.
The _Yellowplush Papers_ were continued through nine numbers.

No further reference was made to Mr.Skelton and his book beyond that given at the beginning of the first number, and the satire is only shown by the attempt made by Yellowplush, the footman, to give his ideas generally on the manners of noble life.

The idea seems to be that a gentleman may, in heart and in action, be as vulgar as a footman.

No doubt he may, but the chances are very much that he won't.

But the virtue of the memoir does not consist in the lessons, but in the general drollery of the letters.
The "orthogwaphy is inaccuwate," as a certain person says in the memoirs,--"so inaccuwate" as to take a positive study to "compwehend" it; but the joke, though old, is so handled as to be very amusing.
Thackeray soon rushes away from his criticisms on snobbism to other matters.