AMERICANISMS
AND BRITICISMS
WITH OTHER ESSAYS
ON OTHER ISMS
BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS
NEW YORK
HARPER AND BROTHERS
MDCCCXCII
Copyright, 1892, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
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All rights reserved.
TO
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
YALE UNIVERSITY
My dear Lounsbury,—In reading over the proof-sheets of these pages, I have happened on your name more often than I thought I had written it, and yet not so often by once as I wish to write it. So I set it here, in the forefront of this little book, to bear witness that much of what may be good in these essaylets of mine is due to help given by you, either directly by word of mouth or indirectly by the printed page. And that is why I take pleasure now in subscribing myself as