...hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or their character. * * During the thirty or forty years...Statesmanlike studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed, since they had an independent...

...or Crabbes ? their Siddons, Kenibles, Keans, or O'Neils? their "Wilkies, Lawrences, Chantreys. * * * In the four quarters of the Globe, who reads an American Book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet...

...years ago, a series of articles designed to answer, in the most practical manner, Sydney Smith's taunt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" It was understood it the time that the writer had access to the most reliable sources for the figures...

...have been foreigners than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since they had an independent...

...fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review of Seyberfs Annals...

...history of any civilised and educated people. During the AMERICA.— SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. 37 thirty or forty years of their independence, they...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy.— [ER 1820.] WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? IN the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or...

...may assume. Not quite forty years ago Sydney Smith spoke thus of American science and literature : " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet...

...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this selfadulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe...

...have effectually disposed of the query put many years ago in England by a high literary authority — "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " There are three special ways in which we may look at Longfellow, viz., as a lyric poet, as a narrative...

...him to death. Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States (1820). 1 Compare Dryden, ante, p. 240. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review on Seykerf s Annals...