Clothes--The Honourable S---- B----.

CHAPTER V

THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN 111

The Isolation of the United States--American Ignorance of the
World--Sensitiveness to Criticism--Exaggeration of their Own
Virtues--The Myth of American Chivalrousness--Whence it
Originated--The Climatic Myth--International Marriages--English
Manners and American--The View of Womanhood in Youth--
Co-education of the Sexes--Conjugal Morality--The Artistic
Sense in American Women--Two Stenographers--An Incident of
Camp-Life--"Molly-be-damned"--A Nice Way of Travelling--How do
they do it?--Women in Public Life--The Conditions which
Co-operate--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit again.

CHAPTER VI

ENGLISH HUMOUR AND AMERICAN ART 145

American Insularity--A Conkling Story--English Humour and
American Critics--American Literature and English Critics--The
American Novel in England--And American Art--Wanted, an
American Exhibition--The Revolution in the American Point of
View--"Raining in London"--Domestic and Imported Goods.

CHAPTER VII

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EDUCATION 166

The Rhodes Scholarships--"Pullulating Colleges"--Are American
Colleges Superior to Oxford or Cambridge?--Other Educational
Forces--The Postal Laws--Ten-cent Magazines and Cheap Books--
Pigs in Chicago--The Press of England and America Compared--
Mixed Society--Educated Women--Generals as Booksellers--And as
Farmhands--The Value of War to a People.

CHAPTER VIII

A COMPARISON IN CULTURE 191

The Advantage of Youth--Japanese Eclecticism and American--The
Craving for the Best--_Cyrano de Bergerac_--Verestschagin--
Culture by Paroxysms--Mr. Gladstone and the Japanese--Anglo-Saxon
Crichtons--Americans as Linguists--England's Past and America's
Future--Americanisms in Speech--Why They are Disappearing in
America--And Appearing in England--The Press and the Copyright
Laws--A Look into the Future.

CHAPTER IX

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS 226

The "English-American" Vote--The Best People in Politics--What
Politics Means in America--Where Corruption Creeps in--The
Danger in England--A Presidential Nomination for