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...ns by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Europeans by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Europeans by Henry James CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a b... ...se members— they were very plump and pretty—to the multifold braids 4 The Europeans of her hair, with a movement half caressing, half correc- tive. A... ...she looked at the glowing bed of anthracite coal in the grate. “Did 6 The Europeans you ever see anything so hideous as that fire?” she de- manded. “... ...cton looked at her a moment. “Now you would n’t like me to say that!” “You Americans have such odd ways!” the Baroness de- clared. “You never ask anyt... ...thing outright; there seem to be so many things you can’t talk about.” “We Americans are very polite,” said Acton, whose na- tional consciousness had ... ... complicated by a residence in foreign lands, and who yet disliked to hear Americans abused. “We don’t like to tread upon people’s toes,” he said. “Bu...

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..., in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping ...

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...e which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble eve... ... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...ff the housing question; but, though the W ellands approved of an extended European honeymoon (per- haps even a winter in Egypt), they were firm as to... ...of our cousin—but it’s hopeless to expect people who are accustomed to the European courts to trouble themselves about our little republican distincti... ...nice girl, and then trust to her to look after him. In the complicated old European communities, Archer be- gan to guess, love-problems might be less ... ...lack of—well, hoe- ing and cross-fertilising: the last remnants of the old European tradition that your forebears brought with them. But you’re in a p... ...he had spent a few gay weeks at Florence with a band of queer Europeanised Americans, dancing all night with titled ladies in palaces, and gambling ha...

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...rough the influence of Democracy in America. Each succeeding generation of Americans will find in the pure and impartial reflections of De T ocquevill... ... till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a provident... ...d courage with which they are expressed. Though not originally written for Americans, “Democ- racy in America” must always remain a work of engrossing... ...ppears to me beyond a doubt that sooner or later we shall arrive, like the Americans, at an almost complete equality of conditions. But I do not concl... ... ever be necessarily led to draw the same political consequences which the Americans have derived from a similar social or- ganization. I am far from ... ...f the continent belongs are gathering almost in secrecy together. When the Europeans first landed on the shores of the West Indies, and afterwards on ... ... “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes... ...lthough they are ignorant and poor, are equal and free. At the period when Europeans first came among them the natives of North America were ignorant ... ... were hidden in former times among the wild forests of the New World.* The Europeans produced no great impression when they landed upon the shores of ...

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...; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle between the mid-European Powers and the rest of Europe; and (he believes) in foretelling a ... ...erial progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?” We are going to deal... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing revenge, dream- ing of ... ...isely similar reasons it seems to me incredible that the two great Central European Powers should ever fall into sustained conflict again with one ano... ... three great World Powers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the con... ...owers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the constitu- ents of these... ...of the war I lunched at the Savoy Hotel in London when it was crammed with Americans suddenly swept out of Europe by the storm. My host happened to be... ...that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise that there are such beings as English republicans. What h...

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...ith some surprise where these reside. Here and there, in the back yards of European establishments, he may have had a glimpse of a native house elbowe... ...sion of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the Britis... ...ir white premier: an offer he had the wisdom and good feeling to refuse. A European chief of police received twelve hun- dred. There were eight head j... ...appointment of chiefs by Tamasese-Brandeis, the sort of mistake into which Europeans in the South Seas fall so readily; one, of the enforced labour of... ...t. And there was yet more, though I almost despair to make it thinkable by Europeans. Certain old mats are handed down, and set huge store by; they ma... ...f course counter- balanced by another of recruitment. But the harshness of European and military rule had made Brandeis detested and Tamasese unpopula... ...e of Matautu, it was opened as a hospital for the wounded. The English and Americans subscribed what was required for its support. Pelly of the Lizard... ...d unshaken. By this time the partisanship of the whites was uncon- cealed. Americans supplied Mataafa with ammunition; En- glish and Americans openly ... ... on. A little be- yond, the road ran in one place somewhat inland, the two Americans had gone down to the line of the beach to con- tinue their inspec...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ...features of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that sha... ...ppoint its international representatives. And here, again, I turn from any European precedents to that political outcome of the British mind, the Cons... ..., T udor, Stuart, and Hanoverian monarchist tra- ditions and urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a s... ...ing represented for ever by President Wilson. We cannot always look to the Americans to express our ideas and do our work for democracy. The foolery o... ... be appealed to to terrify the patriotic souls of the British will be the “Americans.” Are we men of English blood and tradition to see our affairs co... ...population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as Sir Harry ... ... is really a question for the German to consider; he can come in as a good European, he cannot come in as an imperialist brigand. Whether, too, any ot...

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...with a deeper entry; and the Casco, haul- ing her wind, began to slide into the bay of Anaho. The cocoa-palm, that giraffe of vegetables, so graceful,... ...plunged a canoe was already pad- dling from the hamlet. It contained two men: one white, one brown and tattooed across the face with bands of blue, bo... ...and, with cries of wonder and delight, rub herself bare-breeched upon the velvet cushions. Biscuit, jam, and syrup was the entertain- 10 In The South... ... put on Toma, Hoka’s adoptive father, and in his own eyes the right- ful chief of Anaho. In the first place, we did not call upon him, as perhaps we s... ... came and went with us daily; but, alone I believe of all the countryside, neither Toma nor his wife set foot on board the Casco. The temp- tation res... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...was planted by means of the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was the introduction of the word of the Almighty God into this group of Nuuhiw...

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...ong the mixed population of Somanlis, Ban- yans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden. He gaz... ... promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes wi... ...o faltered at every step, followed. This woman was young, and as fair as a European. Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and toes were lo... ... astonishment to find herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers to her! ... ...where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Bir- mingham, with its... ...river. Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy... ...ere was a full complement of passengers on board, among them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and severa... ...r him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately be- gan to bet on him, administered to the detec... ...rous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians. Passepartout was surprise...

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...glish, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting up a legend, as the Germans are... ...ection, “in that matter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of British fiction... ...demonstration of the intellectual inferiority of the German to the Western European that is should ever have happened. There was the clearest a priori... ...new instinctively that he could not pro- duce aviators to meet the Western European; all his social instincts made him cling to the idea of a great mo... ...nt of Western Europe. Before 1914 war was theoretically unpopular in every European country; we thought of it as something tragic and dreadful. Now ev... ...the question is above matters of feeling. Whether the belligerents dislike Americans or the Ameri- cans dislike the belligerents is an incidental matt... ...rds the rest of the world and the future of mankind. I do not know how far Americans are aware of the trend of feeling in Europe at the present time. ... ...ords, “Gen- eral Lafayette, Colonel in the United States army.” “Oh! These Americans!” said X with a gesture. And as I returned to Paris from the Fren...

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...aders have passed and died, and butchered here in vain. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of p... ...for the august arrival, and lined with the squat military in their bastard European costume; the sturdy police, with bandeliers and brown surtouts, ke... ... to pass, and only admitting (with a very unjust partiality, I thought) us Europeans into that reserved space. Before the august ar- rival, numerous o... ... looked small, young, clumsy, and ill-built; uncomfortable in their shabby European clothes; and about the legs, espe- cially, seemed exceedingly weak... ...ily well to do in the Beyrout world, and lived with as much comfort as any Europeans. They had one book; and, on the wall of the principal apartment, ... ...h— made his appearance and welcomed me cordially. It was some time, as the Americans say, before I could “realise” the semillant J- of old times. He s...

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...that America would have flourished as much, and prob ably much more, had no European power had any thing to do with her. The commerce, by which she h... ...all it. France and Spain never were. nor perhaps ever will be our enemies as AMERICANS, but as our being the sub jects of GREAT BRITAIN. But Britain ... ... and carry our friendship on a larger scale; we claim brotherhood with every European Christian, and triumph in the generosity of the senti ment. It ... ... be enlarged into that of ENGLISHMEN. And by a just parity of reasoning, all Europeans meeting in America, or any other quarter of the globe, are COUN... ... or dependence on Great Britain, tends directly to involve this continent in European wars and quarrels; and sets us at variance with nations, who wou... ...on with any part of it. It is the true interest of America to steer clear of European contentions, which she never can do, while by her dependence on ...

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... was just the bos’n of an Italian ship, a big Genoese ship, one of the few European ships that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the bui... ...y’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of e... ...d his brother, orphans, had been brought up by the munificence of a famous European traveller, in whose service their father had lost his life. Anothe... ...you were his father.” This camp-master was the Italian sailor whom all the Europeans in Sulaco, following Captain Mitchell’s mispronunciation, were in... ...was to bring Nostromo into per- sonal contact, sooner or later, with every European in Sulaco, as a sort of universal factotum—a prodigy of efficiency... ...hing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind; but really we Span- ish-Americans do overstep the bounds. No man of ordinary intelligence can take ... ...dertaking which is to put money into the pockets of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans, Germans, and God knows who else. The silence about me is ominous... ... little, nervous men, and fat, placid, swarthy men, and Europeans or North Americans of superior standing, whose faces looked very white amongst the m...

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...picture loses not its attractions. It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensi- bility, who, for the first time, wanders back into t... ...f manliness, no wonder the Tahitians re- garded all pale and tepid-looking Europeans as weak and feminine; whereas, a sailor, with a cheek like the br... ...e. Arrived at the consular office, we found Wilson there, and four or five Europeans, seated in a row facing us; probably with the view of presenting ... ...ere far from being valueless; for, among the poorer T ahitians, everything European is highly esteemed. They come from “Beretanee, Fenooa Pararee” (Br... ...eam of our best raiment, for the purpose of looking tidy, and visiting the European chapel in the village. Every Sunday morning it is open for divine ... ...er person all the foreigners she could. Her partiality for the English and Americans was well known; and this was an additional ground for our an- tic...

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... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...ed the Prussian Corps at all, but only the White Cap Corps. 4. Any student can belong to it who is a German by birth. 5. Any student can belong to it ... ...oung fellow closed up to the sidewalk alongside him, fetched him a cordial slap on the shoulder with his broad palm, and sung out with a hearty cheeri... ...s broad palm, and sung out with a hearty cheeriness: “Americans for two-and-a-half and the money up! Hey?” The Reverend winced, but said mildly: “Yes—... ...fellow, with stuff in him for a useful citizen; he considered him rather a rough gem, but a gem, nevertheless. CHAPTER XXI Insolent Shopkeepers and Ga... ... by a lie; we pretend we like it. I know several of that sort of people— and I propose to be one of them myself when I get home Mark Twain 124 with m... ...fies its hotness, doesn’t make it cold. Water can only be made cold enough for summer comfort by being prepared in a refrigera- tor or a closed ice-pi... ...t only for announcing the sunset, which we did see, but for the sunrise, which we had totally missed; but we said no, we only took our solar rations o... ...her strap which belonged in its place. Our driver got a fresh piece of clothes-line out of his locker and repaired the break in two minutes. So much f...

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...was to be called by a whole generation of scientific men, ‘the greatest of European chemists,’ were staying in a villa near Santo Domenico, between Fi... ...rmies that sus- tained in their broader organisation the traditions of the European wars of thirty and forty years before. There was the infantry arm ... ... much of this was still drawn by horses; though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed tha... ...rs upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still ref... ...rnational situations in recent years. This time it was talk of the Central European powers sud- denly attacking the Slav Confederacy, with France and ... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ...dishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples by whom the world was saved. H... ...the Japa- nese very nearly got San Francisco.’ ‘I hadn’t heard, sir.’ ‘The Americans ran the Japanese aeroplane down into the sea and there the bomb g... ...American. ‘Man,’ said the king, ‘is always entering upon his heritage. You Americans have a peculiar weakness for anniversaries— if you will forgive m...

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...ike Paris, and at a Genevese boarding-house there was sure to be plenty of Americans with whom one could talk about the French metropolis. M. Pigeonne... ... speak of them,” Mrs. Ruck pursued. “Madame Beaurepas has had a great many Americans; she is very fond of Americans,” I replied. “Well, I must say I s... ...y fiez pas!” “It is a matter in which I have nothing at stake.” “You young Americans are droll,” said M. Pigeonneau; “you never have anything at stake... ...hey don’t meddle; they take what’s given them; they leave me tranquil. The Americans are often like that. Often, but not always,” Madame Beaurepas pur... ...Miss Ruck gave a little laugh. “I was saying that you wanted to pass for a European.” “Yes, I want to pass for a Dalmatian.” Miss Ruck looked at me a ... ...ying a little.” “Ah, I am glad to hear that. You are gathering up a little European culture; that’s what we lack, you know, at home. No individual can... ...“Very fortunate, indeed, mamma.” “You see we have acquired an insight into European life,” the elder lady pursued. “We have our place at many a Europe... ...teur?” “His digne epouse. Madame Galopin, for mamma, is the incarnation of European opinion. That’s what vexes me with mamma, her thinking so much of ... ...ke Ma- dame Galopin. Going to see Madame Galopin—mamma calls that being in European society. European society! I’m so sick of that expression; I have ...

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... about similar carefully guarded relics in our expanding cities, and in many European ones as well. It is probable that not a day passes in which the ... ...the Yser to Switzerland. In 1913 it would have been almost impossible to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United Stat... ...y day, with the frankest appreciation) what they can learn from us, while we Americans apply ourselves to finding out what they have to teach us. It is... ...nt; though, even there, they were at great pains, before the war, not to let Americans find it out. The French have never taken the trouble to disguise... ...—but quite recognised that it was good business for her country not to bully Americans. That little incident gave me a glimpse of what life in Germany... ...uick comprehension of French character, is one of the greatest services that Americans familiar with France can render at this moment. The French cann... ...serve her few pre Revolutionary buildings —that small fragment of her mighty European heritage. But there are whole stretches of this heritage that ha... ...due to awe: America has not lived long at her ease with beauty, like the old European races whose art reaches back through an unbroken inheritance of ... ... of an artistic and civic development unknown to the races found by the first European explorers. But the origin and date of these vanished societies a...

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... day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This mystery puzzl... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ... give three turns of the wheel, and the Abraham Lincoln would make for the European seas. This promise was made on the 2nd of November. It had the eff... ...oil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call “ooze,” composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous ... ...l night. These sailors were evi- dently of different nations, although the European type was visible in all of them. I recognised some unmistak- able ... ...retended that six years before, during a stay at Vanikoro, he had seen two Europeans that be- longed to some vessels that had run aground on the reefs... ...hought that it was better to wait for real hostile demonstrations. Between Europeans and savages, it is proper for the Europeans to parry sharply, not... ...t broke again, and in the depths of the ocean could not be recaptured. The Americans, however, were not discouraged. Cyrus Field, the bold promoter of...

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...cating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans. I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; ... ..., at high water, it was seventy glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most. I walked ... ...writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up... ...ox on the left ear, as Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 75 would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the t... ...e the most horrible spec Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 96 tacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swell... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ... is anti-religious, and he is anti- religious because to him as to so many Europeans religion is confused with priest-craft and dogmas, is associated ... ...a seem disposed to give up life and the effort of life. Just as readily as Europeans, do the Asiatics reach out their arms to that fuller life we can ... ...s; they would have a com- mon courtliness. The Quran is but little read by Europeans; it is ignorantly supposed to contain many things that it does no... ...sources and to form original congrega- tions, especially among people with European traditions. These dispositions mark a relapse from understanding. ... ...ts probable obligations to Eastern thought are less readily estimated by a European writer. Modern religion has no revelation and no founder; it is th...