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Frontmatter
Introduction
1777-1800
SAMUEL CURWEN, Loyalist, Longs to Return to Salem
ELKANAH WATSON Hears George III Recognize the Independence of the United States
JOHN ADAMS: "The King Listened with Dignity, but with an Apparent Emotion"
ABIGAIL ADAMS: "I Shall Never Have Much Society with This Kind of People"
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "The Inveterate Hostility of George III"
JOEL BARLOW Watches the Westminister Election of 1788
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS: Kite-Flying to Test the Directions of the Wind
DR. WARREN: "The People Here Look for Facts: They Trust No Theory"
1800-1820
WILLIAM AUSTIN: To Understand the English One Should Be a Plebeian, a Gentleman and a Nobleman
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN: A Young Yale Professor Prepares Himself for a Scientific Career
LYDIA SMITH: "Two of the Most Celebrated Characters of the Day"
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE: "The Only Way to Please John Bull Is to Give Him a Good Beating"
MORDECAI M. NOAH: Money Is "an Infallible Mantle, Which Covers Every Defect"
GEORGE TICKNOR Cultivates Lord Byron and Other Great Swells
EDWARD EVERETT Prepares for His Great Position
JOSEPH BALLARD: "Here Were Imprisoned Fifty Wretched Boys and Girls"
WILLIAM PRESTON: "Beggary, Starvation, Crime and Punishment Were on Every Side"
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Discusses Reform and Revolution with Jeremy Bentham
RICHARD RUSH: "The Paradoxes and Anomalies of English Society"
GEORGE TICKNOR Meets Everybody Who Is Anybody
JOHN GRISCOM Visits Robert Owen's Model Town of New Lanark
WASHINGTON IRVING Introduces the Romantic Note
1820-1830
CHESTER HARDING: "The Duke Honored Me with a Shake of His Hand"
JOHN NEAL Concludes That Bentham Is the Greatest Mind of the Modern Age
JOHN J. AUDUBON: "I Know Now That I Have Not Worked in Vain"
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Casts a Judicious Eye on English Society
1830-1840
THE REVEREND CALVIN COLTON Views the Church of England: "There Is Less Outrage Than in Ireland; but the System Is the Same"
THE REVEREND HENRY MCLELLAN in Liverpool: The Poor Eat "The Bread of Bitterness"
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Has Breakfast with Charles and Mary Lamb and Takes the Measure of English Gentlemen
THE REVEREND ORVILLE DEWEY Visits Wordsworth: The Example of America Doesn't Count
SALLIE STEVENSON: Victoria Becomes Queen and Turns the Heads of Young and Old
CHARLES SUMNER Is Impressed by the Elevated Character of the Legal Profession
HERMAN MELVILLE: Liverpool
WILLIAM GIBSON: A Philadelphia Doctor Revisits the Hospitals of Edinburgh and His Old Mentor, Sir Charles Bell
1840-1850
GEORGE CALVERT: "The English Aristocracy Does Not Form a Caste"
CHARLES LESLIE Recalls Joseph Turner
CATHARINE SEDGWICK: "Order Is England's...First Law"
BRONSON ALCOTT: "Every Englishman Is a Fortification"
THE REVEREND HENRY COLEMAN Sees the Horrors of the Copper Mines
HENRY JAMES, SR.: Recollections of Thomas Carlyle
MARGARET FULLER Visits Carlyle: "It was Very Titanic and Anti-Celestial"
RALPH WALDO EMERSON on English Traits
WILLIAM WARE: The Materialism and Hypocrisy of the English
1850-1860
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED: The Farm Laborers Are Degraded, Brutal and Licentious
HORACE GREELEY Views the English Scene and Interprets the English Character
HENRY TUCKERMAN: Art Is "an Exotic Plant in England"
WARREN ISHAM: The Abominations of the English Legal System
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Views Our Old Home
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY: "Macaulay's Conversation Is the Perfection of the Commonplace"
JAMES HOPPIN: The Ineradicable Suspiciousness of the British Character
WILLIAM EVERETT: The Drawbacks and Advantages of Life on the Cam
1860-1870
HENRY ADAMS Discusses the Blockade with Manchester Businessmen
CHARLES FRANCIS AND HENRY ADAMS Trace the Patters of English Opinion on the American Civil War
MOSES COIT TYLER on English Impressions of America: "An Amplitude, and a Splendor of Non-information"
JOHN LEWIS PEYTON: The Wilkes Affair—"It Was Not Because They Loved" the Confederacy "But Because They Disliked the Yankees"
THE REVEREND MONCURE CONWAY Sees Sheffield as a Battlefield with Casualties
JOHN FORNEY: "The Common Tongue Is Much Better Spoken in America"
PERCY ROBERTS: "The Spirit of Conservatism Deeply Imbues the National Character"
CONGRESSMAN GARFIELD Watches the Debate on the Reform Bill of 1867
THE REVEREND ANDREW PEABODY Observes a Specimen of English Pulpit Eloquence
S. R. FISKE: The Tragic Lot of Women in England
HELEN HUNT JACKSON: The Faces of the Newhaven Fishwives Are "Full of Beauty"
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL on a Certain Condescension in Foreigners
1870-1880
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Becomes a Romany Rye
MONCURE CONWAY: Joseph Arch Launches an Agrarian Revolution
CHARLES LORING BRACE: "Darwin Was as Simple and Jovial as a Boy"
JOHN BURROUGHS: English and American Characteristics Compared
EHRMAN SYME NADAL: The Dullness and the Comfort of English Society
JOHN FISKE: "What Could Be More Grand Than the Life I Have Led Here?"
ADAM BADEAU Thinks Poorly of English Aristocracy
RICHARD GRANT WHITE: "Englishmen as a Mass Are Philistine"
1880-1890
EDWIN WHIPPLE: The English Mind Is "Coarse, Strong, Massive, Sturdy, Practical"
JANE ADDAMS Sees a London of "Hideous Human Need and Suffering"
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: "Smith" and Brown's Hotel
CLAUDIUS PATTEN Deplores the Sorry State of Public Education in England
HENRY JAMES: English Scenes
GEORGE W. SMALLEY Describes the Passing Show in London
BRET HARTE: "Nowhere...in the Whole World Can You Find a Class Living So Entirely for Themselves"
1890-1900
ALICE JAMES Is Not Enthusiastic about England
HENRY WHITE Is Impressed by G.O.M. and His Wife by the Queen
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS Follows an English Election
JOHN CORBIN: "The Superiority of English Sportsmanship"
PRICE COLLIER: In England Everything Is Done for the Men
CHARLES TUCKERMAN: The Englishman Makes Allowances for Foreigners
1900-1910
ELIZABETH PENNELL Remembers Aubry Beardsley and the Yellow Book
CECELIA BEAUX: A Visit with the Darwins in Cambridge
JACK LONDON: "Here...Is Where the Blood Is Being Shed"
STARK YOUNG: The Grace and Sureness of Living
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Takes Some London Films
THE REVEREND MONROE ROYCE: The Prosperity of the Farmer and the Misery of the Farm Laborer
EDITH WHARTON: An American Francophile Visits an American Anglophile
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Visits the Lowly of London
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Breathes the Air of Revolution in Lloyd George's England
1910-1920
WALTER HINES PAGE Champions the Cause of Wartime England
GEORGE SANTAYANA: "He Carries His English Weather in His Heart"
1920-1948
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON: Oxford, "the Most Humane and Intelligent Group of People I Have Ever Known"
CHARLES RUMFORD WALKER: The Religion of Socialism on the Clyde
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS: London "Has Managed to Keep Itself Green and Homelike and Beautiful"
MARGARET THORP: "Circumstances Cannot Be Altered: The Human Being Must Alter"
MARGARET HALSEY Prefers the English Ungentry to the Gentry
MARY ELLEN CHASE: Spring in England
VINCENT SHEEAN: "A Foolish Way to Govern, but It Worked"
J. FRANK DOBIE: "There Is Something of the Martyr in Their Resistance to Change"
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER: English Traits, One Hundred Years Later
Index
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