In fact, _The Snob Papers_ were too good to be brought to an end, and therefore there were forty-five of them.

A dozen would have been better.

As he himself says in his last paper, "for a mortal year we have been together flattering and abusing the human race." It was exactly that.

Of course we know,--everybody always knows,--that a bad specimen of his order may be found in every division of society.

There may be a snob king, a snob parson, a snob member of parliament, a snob grocer, tailor, goldsmith, and the like.