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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...friendly sovereign) was kidnapped and de- ported, on the requisition of an American consul, by the captain of an English war-ship. I shall have to tel... ...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... ...scretion of the Samoa Times. Yet the editor, Cusack, is only an amateur in journalism, and a carpenter by trade. His chief fault is one perhaps inevit...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...onstrous exigency. He refused, and that with the plainness of the West. This American manner of conducting matters of business is, at first, highly un... ...is bread, we consider him for the time be- ing our hired servant. But in the American opinion, two gentlemen meet and have a friendly talk with a view... ...times (above all at wrong times) to falsify a talent, and by the practice of journalism a man runs the risk of becoming wedded to cheap finish. This i...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...red, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. The father slowly rubbed h... ...re were no good ones at home. Then she’s probably engaged; 29 Henry James American girls are usually engaged, I believe. Moreover I’m not sure, after... ...ight before. “I’m drifting to a big position—that of the Queen of American Journalism. If my next letter isn’t copied all over the West I’ll swallow m... ...t to believe that Mr. Bantling took an interest in the diffusion of lively journalism and in consolidating the position of lady-correspondents as it w...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...the New Paper, and one of the ablest and most unscrupulous men in Lon- don journalism, and Banghurst instantly seized upon the situ- ation. The interv...

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...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...ut that, and that sort of thing, is just a day-dream. For a time I must do journalism and work hard… . What isn’t a day-dream is this: that you and I ...

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...cting Blondet’s affection. Every man who has dabbled, or still dabbles, in journalism is under the painful necessity of bowing to men he despises, of ... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ...

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... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...f our management of them, in the strain of Dr. Julius von Karsteg. ‘That’s journalism, or clippings from a bilious essay; it won’t do for the House,’ ...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...and East,” for which The Cen- tury paid the largest price ever given by an American maga- zine for a story. The following year Mr. Kipling married Mr.... ...r, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a million. Her maternal grand- fa... ...was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie on your... ... not tell him. Then he swerved off, just like the other man, to details of journalism in our own coun- try. I ventured to suggest that the interior ec...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two consider...

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...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort... ...es of poor humanity, my fault and his. I had been led to dabble in society journalism; and this coming to his ears, he felt it like a disgrace upon hi...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their... ...iterature, using the word in its widest sense to cover all that is good in journalism, all untechnical speculative, philosophical writing, all that is... ...or the development of that consis- tency of thought which the condition of journalism renders so impossible. This review would mean for them status, r...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...to abuse his trust, I confidently ask those here, the best acquainted with journalism, whether they be lieve it possible that any newspaper so ill co... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... to say his story was quite true. He was captain and part owner of a large American merchant liner. On a certain voyage out, in exquisite summer weath... ... which obtains by far the most exten sive circulation, these words of the American nation:—”I know full well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may...

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...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ..., or Diogenes, one may conceive qualified for this mode of authorship, had journalism existed to rouse them in those days; their “articles” would no d...

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...ons—this was the programme that he saw before his eyes in letters of fire. Journalism and politics, the immense development of the book trade, of lite... ...o, strange coincidence! while Lucien was drawn into the great machinery of journalism, where he was like to leave his honor and his intelligence torn ... ...s’ time the de- mand for paper will be ten times larger than it is to-day. Journalism will be the craze of our day.” “Nobody knows your secret?” “Nobo... ...ill not allow L’Houmeau to be beforehand in doing honor to the poet who in journalism and literature has so gloriously repre- sented our town in Paris... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o...

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...e, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which the mali- cious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes of the centre, at t... ...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...s a live paper, not a bag of tricks. None of your clock- work professional journalism in this office. And I can rely on your integrity——” “But I’ve co... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ... of resignation he never no- tices. He says it is against the etiquette of journalism to write to your Editor. And when I go to see him, he gives me a... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...t anything he couldn’t turn his hand to. Of late I had been training him for journalism, for the time seemed about right for a start in the newspaper ... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ... ..., and that would have pleased me; and them, too, not less. I had adopted the American values exclusively. In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes... ...d it made him comfortable to think so; whereas, in fact, it was paid by the American people, and was so equally and exactly distributed among them th... ...t of the way about it, but now its note was discordant. It was good Arkansas journalism, but this was not Arkansas. More over, the next to the last l... ...nd up among the outlying smithies. See his ad. Of course it was good enough journalism for a beginning; I knew that quite well, and yet it was someho...

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...Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.” One of the nastiest of the British tabloids was founded a year too late to join in the moral panic generated to accompany Oscar Wilde’s court appearances in 1895. Yet ther...

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...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ness twists him awry. Such a man has the stuff of the born journalist, and journalism is the food of the age. Ask him, however, midway in his running,... ...gs! Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events. Rather no journalism at all for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily prea... ...onnell for a diversion, to appease an animus. The revolutionist in English journalism was too devoutly patriotic to belabour even a pantomime mask tha... ...to be eminently a stranger to the official duties,’ observed the captain. ‘Journalism is a maw, and the journalist has to cram it, and like anything e... ... captain applauded the fancy as a pleasing delusion of the young sprigs of Journalism. Upon this, Mr. Colesworth, with all respect for French intellig...

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...are now drawn. Let Mr Harris survey for a moment the field of contemporary journalism. He will see there some men who have the very characteristics fr... ...kespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the...

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........................................................ 190 Chapter 2.1.IV . Journalism. .................................................................. ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus,’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state-... ... a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hun- dred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t... ...and uncracked lungs of Saint-Huruge, the Palais Royal rebellows with Veto. Journalism is busy, France rings with Veto. ‘I shall never forget,’ says Du... ...his red-blue impassive visage waxing hardly a shade bluer. Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing... ...- ningly try it. (See Bertrand-Moleville: Memoires, ii. 100, &c.) Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuade...

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... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ...letter of the law and take no chances. And as far as the law is concerned, journalism, literature, and the drama exist only by custom or sufferance. W... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

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... cap, though not quite the kind of feather his elders might have desired. “Journalism is a kind of native air to us,” said Mrs. Grinstead, “but from ‘... ... first time in print. As to Gerald, he had so long been bred—as it were—to journalism that, young as he was, he had caught the trick, and ‘The Inspect... ... maybe it would be worse for their hearts,” he said, with a sigh. “There’s journalism, a great power.” “Yes, but to put my name to all I could—and lon... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would... ...there was reason to think that she had been smuggled away in an English or American ship, and nothing could be done. Thus much of the story then was c...

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...- mulas, and its general attempt to disguise a masterpiece of propagandist journalism and prophetic invective as a drily scientific treatise of the so... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha...

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...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...to tell Miss Honeychurch that on the right lived Mr. Someone Something, an American of the best type —so rare!—and that the Somebody Elses were farthe... ...a porter! and runs down to his fa- ther for week-ends. Papa was to do with journalism, 143 EM Forster but is rheumatic and has retired. There! Now fo...

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...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus, ’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state... ...ons of Paris and Brabant. Brilliant, we say: for if, in that thick murk of Journalism, with its dull blus- tering, with its fixed or loose fury, any r... ...ch a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hundred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t...

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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... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... 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,... ... of sneering at things American has died only very recently out of English journalism and literature, as any one who cares to consult the bound magazi...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ... been cheerless, hopeless, despondent. As young fellows both tried country journalism—and failed. Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn’t smile... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa...

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...to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignoranc...

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... your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an ep... ...d for his canonization for a whole cen- tury, thus treating him as English journalism has treated that comic foe of the gods, Punch. Moliere’s Don Jua... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ...til you come. TANNER. Better wait here. We shan’t be long. There’s a young American gentleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new... ...merican gentleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new American steam car. THE CHAUFFEUR. [springing up and coming hastily out of ...

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...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...Polish State is not the 108 Notes on Life and Letters gift of any kind of journalism, neither is it the out- come even of some particularly benevolen... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ... ...he cried under his breath. “The first German light! Hurrah!” And those two American citizens shook hands on it with the greatest fervour, while I turn... ... at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our uneasy heads. We cannot be sufficientl...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ...although I lived with him for eight years, mak- ing what money I wanted by journalism, and spending it in high carousal with any one who would sit wit...

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...ife, viewed in no unfavorable light; finding indeed, except the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), lit tle to desiderate there... ...he world was nowise so faultless, and many things besides “the Outrooting of Journalism” might have seemed improve ments, we can readily conjecture. ... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,... ...still less as outweighing so much evidence of an opposite character.”— North American Review, No. 89, October, 1835. IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Edi...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...erred to as an interest. Thus we say that a man’s interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or ar- chaeology, or collecting Japanese print... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ...