on account of their ignorant
patriotism and bravery; but, for the sake of humanity and civilization,
I hope the English will win.'

It is true that I got applause for this statement, it is true that the
presidents of many American universities thanked me for putting the
truth and the facts of the question plainly before the students; but I
am afraid I made very few converts to the pro-English cause, although I
believe I was more successful on the platform in America than in
France, where I got enthusiastically hissed and had several narrow
escapes of being mobbed for expressing my rather pro-English
sentiments.

The more charitable of my compatriots said it was only fair for a
Frenchman who had long enjoyed the hospitality of the English to speak
well of them abroad. Some went so far as to suggest that I was probably
in the pay of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.

However all this may be, my point is this: I don't care what a few
American millionaires, who prefer England to America, who crawl on all
fours before the English aristocracy, who would think it beneath their
dignity to give their daughters to honest Americans, and prefer to get
some English noblemen's coats-of-arms out of pawn with their daughters
and their dollars--I say I don't care what these people may say to the
contrary, my firm conviction, more and more absolute every time that I
travel throughout the United States, is that there is very little love
to spare in America for the English people. And this state of things
will exist as long as the Americans build their patriotism on their
successes of 1776 and 1812 against the English, and so long as
school-books published in America teach American children that the
English are the hereditary foes of their country.

Add also to this that not one-third of the population of the United
States are of English extraction. The Germans and the Scandinavians are
not 'kith and kin,' and the Irish are tooth and nail. Now, if you don't
believe me, let me wish you had been in America, as I was, during the
Venezuelan squabble, some five years ago, and you will be convinced of
the truth of my statement.

But I must leave aside all these political considerations, and also the
question whether American and English men love each other or not, for I
was very near forgetting that the subject of this chapter is 'What
American and English _Women_ think of each other.' Here again, as
in the case of the men, we must not speak of the