... drawing-rooms, and, by all testimony, not unpopular there. The brilliant Lady Eastlake went so far as to assert that high society in London positively likes vulgarity, if it be but new ; and that Sir Francis Palgrave was right in saying that a person who would say rude things would be sure to take in London. And in circles of really good manners, some of the Americans who have been most cordially received in E...