155

Japan, England's alliance with, 8;
its eclectic method, 193;
Mr. Gladstone on, 205;
and California, 263, 287;
tin-tacks for, 375

Japanese, in California, 263;
British admiration of, 351;
watering their horses, 367;
as "John," 376

Johnson, Samuel, 132

Joint purses, 332

Jonson, Ben, 215

Justice in American courts, 400

K

King George men, 349

Kipling, Rudyard, his "type-writer girl," 132;
"The Sea Wife," 187;
"The Monkey-Puzzler," 380;
"An Error in the Fourth Dimension," 408

L

La Farge, John, 103, 161

Lang, Andrew, on Americanisms, 221

Law, Bonar, 334

Legislators must read and write, 71

Legislatures, quality of American State, 79, 401

Letters, two, 389

Lewis, Alfred Henry, 154

Liberals, English, and Democrats, 256;
influence of, on American thought, 346

"Liberty, that damned absurd word," 10

_Life_, New York, 129, 162

Literature, English ignorance of American, 157

Litigation, American dislike of, 394

"Live and let live," 388

Lobbyists, 244

Locomotives, temporary and permanent, 396

Log-rolling, 249

London, foreign affairs in, 114;
Strand improvements, 151;
"raining in," 163;
a Tammany Hall in, 232

Lord, Englishmen's love of a, 309

Lords, the House of, and the U. S. Senate, 313;
a defence of, 342

Louisiana and the Federal Government, 262

Loyal Legion, the, 187, 189

Luck, English belief in, 108

Lying, American ability in, 352

Lynchings, 302

M

MacDowell, Edward, 200

Mafia in New Orleans, 263

Magazines, American, 160, 171, 180

Mansfield, Richard, 202

Max O'Rell, on John Bull and Jonathan, 36, 92;
on American newspapers, 177

Merchant marine, the American, 63

Mexico, possible annexation of, 27

Mining camp life, 70, 132

"Molly-be-damned," 134

Monopolies, artificial and natural, 407

Moore, _Zeluco_, 119

Morality, of the two people, sexual, 120;
political, _see under_ Corruption;
commercial, 308, 400;
sporting, 426

Morgan, Pierpont, 358

Mormons and ants, 214

Morris, Clara, 201

Mount Stephen, Lord, 310

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