districts not at all remote. Exactly the same
thing is true of Italy and Germany, and is characteristic of almost
every other European land. As compared with other countries, we in
America are literally a band of brothers."--_The Outlook for the Average
Man_, pages 104, 105.

INDEX

A

_Academy_, newspaper, the, 159

Alderman, election of an, 239;
"Mike," 252

Alliance, Anglo-American, desirable, 7, 430

Alliances, entangling, what they mean, 5

Amateurs, in sport, 421

American accent, the, 106

American dislike of England, 43, 46, 98 _sqq._, 112, 430

American journalists in London, 220

"American methods," in business, 328

American people, the, a bellicose people, 8;
its fondness for ideal, 10;
sensitive to criticism, 34;
dislike of subterfuges, 34;
an Anglo-Saxon people, 37, 87, 140;
and its leading men, 48;
foreign elements in, 58, 80, 227, 443;
self-reliant, 67;
resourceful, 70;
homogeneous, 80, 211, 451;
quick to move, 87;
"sense of the state" in, 89;
its ambitions, 90;
character of, influenced by the country, 97;
likes round numbers, 105;
its provincialism, 113;
its isolation, 116, 434;
effect of criticism on, 115, 157;
its attitude toward women, 119 _sqq._;
its insularity, 146;
manners of, 147;
pushfulness, 148;
did not invent all progress, 151;
humour of, 152;
its literature, 157;
science, 159;
art, 160;
architecture, 160;
its self-confidence, 164;
factors in the education of, 171;
influence of the Civil War on, 188;
its hunger for culture, 189;
not superficial, 193, 204;
eclecticism, 194;
musical knowledge of, 199;
drama of, 201;
takes culture in paroxysms, 203;
looks to the future, 208;
political corruption in, 234;
great parties in, 256;
political sanity of, 284;
purifying itself, 300, 324, 336, 353, 364;
aristocracy in, 309;
shrinks from European commercial conditions, 331;
hatred of trusts, 331;
misrepresented by its press, 340;
contempt for hereditary legislators, 346;
commercial integrity, 351;
religious feeling in, 353;
insistence of an individuality, 382;