...done "absolutely nothing for the sciences, for art, for literature," and added the scornful query, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " -'-'.'--'/ revolutions, like armies on the march, advance with Pioneers in front . , . Such was...

...amusement and disrelish as we have read it. It is the article in which he asks the nettling question, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? I have long felt, by the way, that Sydney Smith was extremely lucky in the date of his article, for...

...the University of Pennsylvania, assumed the editorial chair, and, stung by Sydney Smith's gibe — " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? what does the world yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" — he adopted it as the motto...

...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Eeview ofSeybert's Annals of the United Statts, 1820. 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 ? ibid. Magnificent spectacle...

...diverting to read in the Edinburgh Review of 1820, such a series of interrogations as the following:— "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...

...diverting to read in the Edinburgh Review of 1820, such a series of interrogations as the following : — " 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...

...some very hard, and, for the most part, well-deserved criticism. In 1818 he inquired in the Review: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play ? " A few years later Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper made the gibe...

...and honored by all nations. In the year 1820 Sydney Smith, of England, asked the famous questions, "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? or looks at an American picture, or statue? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes...

...prior to the advent of Washington Irving. As late as 1820 we merited the reproach of Sydney Smith — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" And, frankly, on any principle of selection it appears to us somewhat whimsical to treat Wigglesworth's...

...the Medical and Physical Sciences," printed on its title page the malicious fling of Sydney Smith : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? What does the \vorld yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" And abundantly well has this great...