The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

CHAPTER XXXIII.

FACE TO FACE WITH OUR ENGLISH COUSINS - EMINENT
PEOPLE WHOM I MET -TURNING OUR FACES HOMEWARD.
Our English Civilization - London the great World Center - Its Gay and
Courtly Life - A Storehouse of Universal Knowledge - Effects of Unequal Distribution of Wealth - Given to Excessive Drinking - English
Social Life - An Embarrassing Situation - The Early Friend of George
Eliot - The Minister of Finsbury Place Chapel - "I hope the Men of
America will emigrate where Women will be kept in their Places" -
The Coffee House System of England - "Free and Easies "-Miss
Martineau's Scrupulous Cleanliness- Treating a Cow like a Lady -
Giving her Pig a Bath - A Long Struggle - Turning our Faces Homeward.
TO Americans, a return to England after sojourn on the
continent, is like going home. Again we are among
people of our own race and blood, who speak with us a
common language. Our civilization is only a continuation
of the English civilization under different conditions, some
of them more favorable, some of them less so. Whatever
Americans are doing or beginning in the way of a high civilization, English people have also been doing for years, or
are now attempting. In fact, the English civilization has
affected that of all countries, and, to-day, the aims and the
culture of the world are more or less Anglicized. Our libraries are pauperized if they lack the works of Shakspeare,
Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Bacon, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Lamb, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, James and Harriet
Martineau, Tennyson, Frances Power Cobbe, Tyndall, Huxley,
Lecky, Lubbock, D'Israeli, Gladstone, and of scores of other
authors of high rank. Notwithstanding Americans grumble
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