The ethnologist, who delights in comparing the Peculiarities of different
races, will learn from the performance of Some Chinese jugglers at Drury Lane' that the Mongolian race indulges in much the same' displays of manual dexterity as that branch of the Indo-Germanic which inhabits thisisland... The feats with balls and knives, which seem to afford grati- fication in the Celestial Empire, are as like as possible to the exploits which are performed in the London streets by truly British acrobats. One of the party, to be sure, stands with his back- to a board, while another throws knives at him, which miss within a: very short distance. But our readers may be. consoled by learning that this achievement does not look half so dangerous on the Drury. Lane stage as in certain wood-cuts-that adorn the walla of the metropolis.
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