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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

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...I, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 VI — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In C... ...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...blances; while deep unsuspected. similarities and disagreements, deep common attractions and repulsions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundam... ...ions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundamental substances that the new link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the str... ...heir statues of Bismarck as “Liberty Enlightening the World” when democratic visitors were expected. An amusing instance of this kind of camouflage, wh... ...ine with the wasteful degradation of the unrivalled twin river fronts of New York, may draw his own conclusions as the sheer material advantage of tas... ...ive the classic drama are as packed as the house where “The Mysteries of New York” are unrolled, while on the occasion of the free performances given ... ...f the “Bon jour, Madame,” on entering and leaving a shop, of the fact that a visitor should always, on taking leave, be conducted to the outer door, a...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...Excerpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Dise...

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... of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this documen... ... anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as... ... PART I F our years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at... ... PART I F our years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at mid... ...those huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the ho- tels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadwa... ...He has got a tremendously pretty wife.” It was natural that in the hour of tribulation Lord Lambeth and Mr. Percy Beaumont should have bethought them-... ... white jacket, who grinned familiarly when Lord Lambeth asked for Mr. Westgate. 9 Henry James “He ain’t at home, sah; he’s downtown at his o’fice.” “... ...please to say, ‘Hands off; too late for the market.’ But let’s see,” continued the American, in his slow, humorous voice, with a distinct- ness of utt... ...f yourself,” said the object of maternal and ducal solicitude. “Ah,” rejoined the young barrister, “I haven’t the ex- pectation of a hundred thousand ...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding fa...

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Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...least re-vealed by BaIzac, if by any one, and are now easily accessible to visitors. It is true, I met no visitors, or only one or two, whom it was pl... ...vantage, are in the vulgar taste which seems doomed to stamp itself on all new Catholic work; but there was never-theless a great sweetness in the sce... ...te, the happy proportions, the color of this beautiful front, to which the new feeling for a purely domestic architecture—an architecture of security ... ...stored more than enough, as I have said, by architects and decorators; the visitor, as he moves through its empty rooms, which are at once brilliant a... ... was built very much as the residence of Mr. Vanderbilt is regarded in New York to-day. It stands on the edge of the hill on 63 Henry James which mos... ... really more interesting,—a group of stunted savages who formed one of the attractions of the place, and were confined in a pen in the open air, with ... ...- ally more concentrated; but the school of medicine passed for one of the attractions of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado ...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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