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...ssly and cannot understand that inclination does not im- ply power; of the Americans, whose rasping voices in the hush of a hot afternoon strain tense... ...e. The heads of the camel-sheiks bowed gravely, and the camels, scenting a European, looked sideways curiously like brooding hens, half ready to get t...

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...ng streets of commonplace shops and houses, such as are to be found in any European town; there were busy people, equipages, ordinary walkers to and f... ...rly uncomfortable, with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigne...

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...be gone a year, but returned at the end of six weeks, fulminating abuse of European cooking. Nearly his entire time had been spent in Paris; but of th... ...ra and Propo,” remarked Harran. “We’ve got our best results with that, and European millers like it to mix with the Eastern wheats that have more glut... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ...or rings and mixing houses. When in feed- ing China you have decreased the European shipments, the effect is instantaneous. Prices go up in Europe wit... ...elped. They were good stock. Of such was the backbone of the nation—sturdy Americans everyone of them. Where else in the world round were such strong,...

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... hours’ work just on account of a centipede. I hit him about rather.” * No European is known to have seen a live Æpyornis, with the doubtful exception... ...e forehead, as if his brain had been twisted round in the reverse way to a European’s. He was short of stature and still shorter of En- glish. In conv... ...ollecting-net, and pen, and almost entirely with reference to Pawkins. The European reputation he had won had come as an incident in that great antipa... ...hi’s pigtail in his hand. The life of a Chinaman is scarcely sacred like a European’s. The cunning little face of Chang-hi, first keen and furious lik... ..., 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... ...st world left the star unheeded. And yet, when at last the watchers in the European States saw the star rise, an hour later, it is true, but no larger...

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... were not their lawful wives; behind him 221 W. Somerset Maugham he heard Americans loudly arguing on art. His soul was thrilled. He sat till very la... ... said Philip. “They might have stepped out of the Vie de Boheme.” “They’re Americans,” said Miss Price scorn- fully . “Frenchmen haven’t worn things l... ...fully . “Frenchmen haven’t worn things like that for thirty years, but the Americans from the Far West buy those clothes and have themselves photograp... ..., they’ve all got money . ” Philip liked the daring picturesqueness of the Americans’ costume; he thought it showed the romantic spirit. Miss Price as... ...ad been in the morning, and there was not the preponderance of English and Americans; nor were women there in so large a proportion. Philip felt the a... ... with humanity , they seemed to bring an air of mystery. They were clad in European, shabby clothes, their thin great- coats were threadbare, but each...

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...bead-work, in different layers. She bowed to various acquaintances— mostly Americans in uniform, whom she had known in Paris. She smiled to Lady Cochr... ...od. That was the true blood. It wasn’t frightened. All the rest are craven—Europeans, Asiat- ics, Africans—everyone at his own individual quick craven...

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...hrooms in the houses he sold. He was fond of explaining why it was that no European ever bathed. Some one had told him, when he was twenty-two, that a... ...is lunch- period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Wel... ...er, “though,” she sighed, “it’s becoming too dreadfully banal; nothing but Americans and frowsy English baronesses.” And at that moment in Zenith, a c... ...out those subjects, together with three funny sto- 318 Babbitt ries about European misconceptions of America and some spirited words on the necessity...

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...asse—but that looks as if one hadn’t any other reason for being there: the Americans who don’t know any one always rush for the best food. And the Duc... ...usly. “Can they cook terra- pin? It just shows,” he continued, “what these European mar- kets are, when a fellow can make a reputation cooking peas!” ... ...ay that nearly everybody can. And the London market is so glutted with new Americans that, to succeed there now, they must be either very clever or aw...

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...y! But Mrs. Fyne’s fervent “thank goodness” turned out to be a bit, as the Americans—some Americans—say “previous.” In a very short time the odious fe... ...d in a high-class woman’s weekly paper that a great many princesses of the European royal houses were cultivating that art. This was the water-colour ...

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... is not too much to say that it is of such weight it may have an influence upon European history.” “I promise,” said Holmes. “And I.” “You will excuse ... ...e my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native born Americans in the ship. The others are Finns and Germans. I know, also, ...

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...he date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans. That, for these reasons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he kne... ...rgraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Cust...

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...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ....’ ‘It is because ours is a fight of men, not of children; not one of your European wars of paltry ambition, but a war of prin- ciple!’ cried Cora, wi... ...of stern purpose.’ And verily Averil noted the difference. Had a number of European soldiers been passing so near in an equally undis- ciplined manner...

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...le English; she tells me she had to learn it in order to converse with the Americans who come in such numbers to this hotel. She has given me a great ... ... if I should gain all I desire. 6 A Bundle of Letters I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as ... ...gentlemen— are much more what I should call attetive. I don’t know whether Americans are more sincere; I haven’t yet made up my mind about that. The o... ...n’t yet made up my mind about that. The only drawback I experience is when Americans sometimes express surprise that I should be travelling round alon... ...e that I should be travelling round alone; so you see it doesn’t come from Europeans. I always have my answer ready; “For general culture, to acquire ... ...ning to what they said. They were talking En- glish, but I guess they were Americans. “Well,” said one of them, “it all depends on what you 8 A Bundl... ...l you, I have determined to take right hold for myself; to look right into European life, and judge it without Johnsonian prejudices. I have taken up ... ...appy vision, of going there to reside. I ought to direct all my efforts to European cul- ture now, and keep Boston to finish off. But it seems as if I...

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...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ...osophical thought, or see many good plays or under- stand the contemporary European mind, German. And yet it would cost amazingly little to get every ... ... development if the thing is to be achieved. Now that, I admit, is, as the Americans say, a large propo- sition. But we are living in a time of more a... ...o maintain one during that conflict of preparation which is at present the European substitute for actual hostilities. It consumes. It produces nothin... ...pon it peculiarly urgent is the manifestly temporary nature of the present European situation and the fact that within quite a small number of years o...

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... lady who lived there—a foreign lady—a person older than himself. Very few Americans— indeed, I think none—had ever seen this lady, about whom there w... ...e. Winterbourne, laughing, answered that he had met Germans who spoke like Americans, but that he had not, so far as he remem- 9 Henry James bered, m... ...aid. “They are very common,” Mrs. Costello declared. “They are the sort of Americans that one does one’s duty by not—not accepting.” “Ah, you don’t ac... ...lo that he had spent the afternoon at Chillon with Miss Daisy Miller. “The Americans—of the courier?” asked this lady. “Ah, happily,” said Winterbourn... ...t Mr. Winterbourne! He knows plenty of Italians, but he wants to know some Americans. He thinks ever so much of Americans. He’s tremendously clever. H... ...who, while residing abroad, make a point, in their own phrase, of studying European soci- ety, and she had on this occasion collected several speci- m... ...o invite her; and they intimated that they desired to express to observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy Miller was a young Americ...

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...le and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and f... ...rease of the number of its in- habitants. In Great Britain, and most other European countries, they are not supposed to double in less than five hundr... ...t they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Any carrion, the carcase of a dead dog or cat, for example, ... ...ck which puts that labour into motion. The sugar colonies possessed by the European nations in the West Indies may be compared to those precious viney... ...nting nations of North America, before their country was discovered by the Europeans, with whom they now exchange their surplus peltry, for blankets, ... ...on by the capitals of those who are not resi- dent members of it. Were the Americans, either by combination, or by any other sort of violence, to stop... ...y great extent. Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. Sugar was origin... ...ons were by no means so weak and defenceless as the miserable and helpless Americans; and in pro- portion to the natural fertility of the countries wh... ...ce, as they do at present, in proportion to that of the most populous. The Americans, it has been said, indeed, have no gold or silver money, the inte...

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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... ...sing his august office openly in the light of day, with the authority of a European repu- tation. But then M. Jules Lemaitre is a man possessed of wis... ...nd the Augustulus of the REGIME that was wont to speak contemptu- ously to European Foreign Offices in the beautiful French phrases of Prince Gorchako... ...ound for the advent of a still larger understanding: for the solidarity of Europeanism, which must be the next step towards the advent of Concord and ... ... lies outside the stream of progress. This des- potism has been utterly un-European. Neither has it been Asiatic in its nature. Oriental despotisms be... ... necessities, or the aspirations of mankind. That despotism has neither an European nor an Oriental parentage; more, it seems to have no root either i... ...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 ...

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...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...’s door. Nothing that I can say with reference to the social habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fat... ... else to remain neutral between them. I had heard this matter discussed by Americans before I left England, and I have of course heard it discussed ve... ...ok learning—is no doubt infinitely higher in a new American than in an old European town. Such an animal as a beggar is as much unknown as a mastodon.... ...jured by it. It is rapid, but has not the beautifully bright color of some European rivers— of the Rhine, for instance, and the Rhone. But what is wan... ...ent meth- ods of populating young colonies. There may be, and to us on the European side of the Atlantic there will be, a certain amount of absurdity ... ... brains in their fingers, whereas “common people”—alluding by that name to Europeans—had them only, if at all, inside their brain-pans. And then he in... ...nce of four or five men well known to fame on the American and also on the European side of the ocean. President Felton’s* name is very familiar to us...

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... invented Yankee word of ‘‘loafer’’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. These men stood about doing nothing, with their cloaks, little... ... others which we afterwards saw engaged in the same trade, have English or Americans for officers, and two or three before the mast to do the work ... ... as well as I could see in the dark- ness, was a young looking man, in the European dress, and covered up in a large cloak, was the agent of the fir... ...e country, spoke English; and who, we afterwards learned, were English and Americans who had married and settled in the country. I also connect... ... and lined inside with silk; a short jacket of silk or figured calico, (the European skirted body coat is never worn;) the shirt open in the neck; ri... ...re gowns of various texture—silks, crape, cali- coes, etc.,—made after the European style, except that the sleeves were short, leaving the arm bare,... ...n a few weeks on shore, unless he belong to some vessel. Consequently, the Americans and English who intend to remain here become Catholics, to a ma... ...serving for half a dozen. They never take short, continuous draughts, like Europeans, but one of these ‘‘Oahu puffs,’’ as the sailors call them, ser... ...esas Islands. The night before the vessels were ready to sail, all the Europeans united and had an entertainment at the Rosa’s hide house, and ...

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...oppers and lizards. It is brightly coloured, but not so beau- tiful as the European species: in its flight, manners, and place of habitation, which is... ... form, every shade, so completely surpasses in magnifi- cence all that the European has ever beheld in his own country, that he knows not how to expre... ...e ex- tremely desert character of that region will not be disputed. In the European division of the world, we must look back to the tertiary epochs, t... ...habiting open dry countries. In structure they cannot be com- pared to any European form. Ornithologists have generally included them among the creepe... ... across wide districts. Near the Guardia we find the southern limit of two European plants, now become extraordinarily com- mon. The fennel in great p... ...tity of resin oozes from the bark, which is sold at a penny a pound to the Americans, but its use was then unknown. Some of the New Zealand forest mus...

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...aration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands of miles awa... ... on these themes. 2 He claimed it was more important for Mus- lims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.“It is far better for anyone to kill ... ...that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retalia- tion in kind.We d... ...wer:“We are certain that we shall—with the grace of Allah—prevail over the Americans. ” He went on to warn that “If the present injustice contin- ues ... ...oment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate killing of Americans—win thousands of followers and some degree of approval from milli... ... contacted Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5. Hadley apparently called European coun- terparts, while Clarke worked with senior officials in the G... ...thern Philippines to Indonesia • West Africa, including Nigeria and Mali • European cities with expatriate Muslim communities, especially cities 366 T... ...nce that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European financier Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, provided any funding to s... ...nly get worse.The Muslims will for- ever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and Jews. ”The prime minister’s argument was that the Muslims sho...

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...aptain Mumford under the star of the Guelphic Order which he wore, and the Americans, with a shout, rushed up the com- panion to the quarter-deck, upo... ...ever imagined by seaman. It is this which has been so wrongly described by European annalists, and of which the British until now have maintained the ... ...reat deal faster than to the regular corps in the Company’s service. I had European officers, of course, to command them, and a few of my coun- trymen... ...te-faced-Feringhees-near-the-mango-tope-conse- crated-to Ram’) occupied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language ... ...matchless power of your indomitable arm.’ “Futtyghur is, as I have said, a European station, and the pretty air of the bungalows, amid the clustering ... ...he dollars; do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my 178 Thackeray pipe for me, a...

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...in America, and would have made them appear vener- able in the eyes of the Europeans, were it possible for man- kind to respect virtue when revealed i... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...nt an uncertain evil. The English, on the other side, call the rest of the Europeans cowardly and unnatural. Cowardly, because they are afraid of putt... ... not be corrected might at least be pointed out. By this means, as all the Europeans read those works, they would teach them our language in its utmos...

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...amage and destruc- tion of about half the windows. These buildings were of European type and were on the reverse side of a steep hill. At the same dis... ... are Ger- man. We finally quiet him down. He thought that we might well be Americans who had parachuted down. Rumors of parachutists were being bandie... ..., however, of what nationality we were. They, too, feared that we might be Americans who had parachuted in. When we arrived in Nagatsuka, it had just ... ... ill effects. None of us in those days heard a single outburst against the Americans on the part of the Japanese, nor was there any evidence of a veng... ... discovery to a further stage and were about to initiate such bombing. The Americans were reputed to have learned the secret from the Germans, and the...

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...f Maine, foreigners are not allowed to kill moose there at any season; white Americans can 84 The Maine Woods kill them only at a particular season, ... ... the period of the discovery of America, to San Salvador and the Incas, when Europeans first encountered the simple faith of the Indian. There was, ind... ... a noise in the world, — never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman. There is a lumberer’s road called the Eagle Lake road...

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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... ...receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a... ...is- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen,... ...sect and vari- ous dervish bodies are the possessors of the mysti- [244] A European witness, after carefully comparing the results of Yoga with those ...

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...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu... ..., homely dressing man; and when he was sent to Paris on the affairs of the Americans, all the great ladies and gentlemen went into raptures about his ... ...ime, the war went on between America and England, year after year; and the Americans became trained soldiers and got the better, so that George III. w... ...o reward him, and he set off across France to meet the armies of the other European countries. For, while the English were fighting in Spain, the othe...

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...e patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Col... ...e which needs exposure. It is known that the birth- rate is falling in all European countries—a fall which has a very direct relation to a rise in the... ...strike out the new phrase in a fine burst of ignorant discovery. There are Americans in particular who are amazingly apt at this sort of thing. They t... ...rica who will murder and misunderstand the language against any eleven the Americans may select. Of course there is a natural and necessary growth and... ...he real and steady development of American scientific men is masked to the European observer, and it must be greatly hampered by the copious silliness... ...llow-citizens. That is the cardinal fact in life for the great majority of Americans who respond to the stirrings of ambition. If in Britain capacity ... ...prince, too often some poor creature great only by convention—and what the Americans do I do not know, unless they use a Boss. There are many occasion... ... sets that would help the common British to a clearer idea of America, and Americans to a real- ization that the British Islands are something more th... ... of generations could have been avoided!” Our time has come, and we of the European races are making our struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a ...

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...n creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most g... ...brave man, and might prob ably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self confidence, too high an opin ion ... ...h an opin ion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians. George Croghan, our Indian interpreter, join’d him... ...hia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of Br... ...ent state of affairs in America and discourse thereupon, he said to me: “You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution; you conten...

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...in the ater that has galloped under the sea and come crashing through the European press without exciting anybody but me. But are you sure, are you d... ...ly love a lord’; but after this I shall talk back, and say, ‘How about the Americans?’” It is a curious thing, the currency that an idiotic saying can... ...worn threadbare several hundred cen turies before America was discovered. European girls still exploit it as briskly as ever; and, when a title is no... ...arned how immense is the posi tion the lord occupies. Of any ten thousand Americans who eagerly gather, at vast inconvenience, to get a glimpse of Pr... ... out of it, too; he will seem, even to himself, to be different from other Americans, and better. As his opin ion of his superior Americanism grows, ...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ut nightfall. At no period within history can travel have presented to any European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Ja... ... women, capable and incapable, played a conspicuous part upon the stage of European history; and yet their rule, whatever may have been the opinion of...

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...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ... scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches wer... ...ense, and had just come home from the French modiste who had adapted it to European wear. Allen started up in admiration and delight. Even Mr. Mor- ga... ... him collecting testimonials for his fitness to act as Vice-principal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mot... ...ing with “M.A., Oxford, ac- customed to the best society and familiar with European lan- guages,” but though the newspapers charged highly for it, he ...

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...eforth pray to, with up- turned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ...l Deputy; but be sternly beckoned away. Dimmer then, far-borne over utmost European lands, in uncertain twilight of diplo- macy, he shall hover, intri... ...rnal epochs, of working and slumbering; and now, for the second time, most European and African mortals are asleep. But here, in this Whirlpool of Wor... ...ht very naturally, one after one, have glided off; and the whole course of European His- tory have been different! But he is there. List to the brool ... ... aban- doned altogether to itself. What a Paris, when the darkness fell! A European metropoli- tan City hurled suddenly forth from its old combination... ...ondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Americans; so that there be no Metropolis or indivisible French Nation any ...

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...alternative,—’the Pacific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does no... ...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...

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...g.” So, we are told, the New Hol lander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. Is it impossible to combine the hardines... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...actual fact that those people originated in another conti- nent. I had met Americans before. And the Blunts were Ameri- cans. But so little! That was ... ...couldn’t even smile at it. “Because if I am unconventionalized I am an old European,” I murmured gently. “No, Excellentissima, I shall go through life...

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...im a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantages of money, put this question:... ... a man to their tables who has stood in the pillory.’ Johnson attacked the Americans with intem- perate vehemence of abuse. I said something in their ... ... said so harsh a thing. Johnson. Because, Sir, you made me angry about the Americans.’ Boswell. ‘But why did you not take your revenge directly?’ John... ...d to go to America; Johnson. ‘I hope he will go to America.’ Boswell. ‘The Americans don’t want oratory.’ Johnson. ‘But we can want Sheridan.’ On Mond...

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..., that nation is the English. Choose out the ten leading men of each great European people. Choose them in France, in Austria, Sardinia, Prussia, Rus-... ... be paid for it short of wading through dirt and dishonour. No other great European nation has anything like it to offer to the ambition of its citize... ...ave been very kind. ’ ‘And who is he, doctor? Won’t it go to some of those Americans? I am sure I never did anything kind to them; though, indeed, I d...