_Dogmatism and Puppyism_ (Vol. iv, p. 102).--The quotation your
correspondent writes about to be found in MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S _A Man
Made of Money_, p. 252.:
"'Robert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential air of a
scholar, 'Robert, what did Mr. Carraways mean when he said he
hated dog--dogmatism?' Topps was puzzled. 'Robert, my dear,' Jenny
urged, 'what--what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the
weakness of Topps, never to confess ignorance of anything soever
to his wife. 'A man should never do it,' Topps had been known in
convivial seasons to declare; 'it makes 'em conceited.' Whereupon
Topps prepared himself, as was his wont, to make solemn,
satisfying, answer. Taking off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles
of his brow, Topps said, 'Humph! what is dogmatism? Why, it is
this, of course: dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.'"