Oxford, March 18.
_Rococo_.--This is one of those cant words, of no very definite,
and of merely conventional, meaning, for any thing said or done in
ignorance of the true propriety of the matter in question. "_C'est
du rococo_," it is mere stuff, or nonsense, or rather twaddle. It was
born on the stage, about ten years ago, at one of the minor theatres
at Paris, though probably borrowed from a wine-shop, and most likely
will have as brief an existence as our own late "flare-up," and such
ephemeral colloquialisms, or rather vulgarisms, that tickle the public
fancy for a day, till pushed from their stool by another.