But here is a difficulty.

The great City Snob is commonly most difficult of access.

Unless you are a capitalist, you cannot visit him in the recesses of his bank parlour in Lombard Street.

Unless you are a sprig of nobility there is little hope of seeing him at home.

In a great City Snob firm there is generally one partner whose name is down for charities, and who frequents Exeter Hall; you may catch a glimpse of another (a scientific City Snob) at my Lord N----'s SOIREES, or the lectures of the London Institution; of a third (a City Snob of taste) at picture-auctions, at private views of exhibitions, or at the Opera or the Philharmonic.