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JUST now some of the English illustrated papers are teeming with pictures of life in America, suggested, no doubt, by the fact that a so-called American Exhibition is soon to open in London and that Mr. Gladstone has been to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. "Types of Western men" prove to be Africans, Indians and Mexicans in outlandish costumes. The old stage-coach of the days when Horace Greeley went West is shown, also the "bull team," which is a "prairie schooner" with six or ten pairs of oxen attached. These papers tell their readers that it is safe traveling from New York to Chicago, and that the English type of civilization is gradually spreading all over the continent! The English readers are to be congratulated upon receiving such solid chunks of wisdom. Their impressions anent America were growing dim, and needed to be touched up a little.