...nt ma- niacal gesture, distressed, troubled and uneasy; Osterman, with his comedy face, the face of a music-hall singer, his head bald and set off by ... ...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... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...ittling a wax candle over the floor to make it slip- pery for dancing. The musicians arrived, the City Band of Bonneville— Annixter having managed to ... ...his hands from his pockets. But abruptly there was an interruption. In the musicians’ corner a scuffle broke out. A chair was overturned. There was a ... ... 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...

...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 ... ...hat we find ourselves obliged to organize an opposition. We have seen the Comedy of Errors played so dismally like a tragedy that we really cannot be... ...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;... ...y no difference. The painters’ art has four or five such institutions. The musicians’ art, so generously and charmingly represented here, has likewise... ...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... ...with prose, others will connect him with poetry. One will connect him with comedy, and another with the romantic passions of the stage, and his assert...