l.

CHAPTER XIV

A CONTRAST IN PRINCIPLES 371

The Commercial Power of the United States--British Workmanship--
Tin-tacks and Conservatism--A Prophetic Frenchman--Imperialism
in Trade--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit--About Chaperons--"Insist upon
Thyself"--English and American Banks--Dealing in Futures--Dog
Eat Dog--Two Letters--Commercial Octopods--Trusts in America
and England--The Standard Oil Company--And Solicitors--Legal
Chaperons--The Sanctity of Stamped Paper--Conclusions--Do
"Honest" Traders Exist?

CHAPTER XV

THE PEOPLES AT PLAY 408

American Sport Twenty-five Years Ago--The Power of Golf--A
Look Ahead--Britain, Mother of Sports--Buffalo in New York--
And Pheasants on Clapham Common--Shooting Foxes and the
"Sport" of Wild-fowling--The Amateur in American Sport--At
Henley--And at Large--Teutonic Poppycock.

CHAPTER XVI

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 429

A New Way of Making Friends--The Desirability of an Alliance--
For the Sake of Both Peoples--And of all the World--The Family
Resemblance--Mutual Misunderstandings--American Conception of
the British Character--English Misapprehension of Americans--
Foreign Influences in the United States--Why Politicians
Hesitate--An Appeal to the People--And to Caesar.

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INDEX 453

The Twentieth Century
American

"_If I can say anything to show that my name is really
Makepeace, and to increase the source of love between the two
countries, then please, God, I will._"--W. M. Thackeray, in
_Letters to an American Family_.

"_Certainly there is nothing like England, and there never has
been anything like England in the world. Her wonderful
history, her wonderful literature, her beautiful architecture,
the historic and poetic associations which cluster about every
street and river and mountain and valley, her vigorous life,
the sweetness and beauty of her women, the superb manhood of
her men, her Navy, her gracious hospitality, and her lofty
pride--although some single race of men may have excelled her
in some single particular--make