The Twentieth Century American / Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations - Harry Perry Robinson

INDEX

A
Academy, newspaper, the, [159]
Alderman, election of an, [239];
"Mike," [252]
Alliance, Anglo-American, desirable, [7], [430]
Alliances, entangling, what they mean, [5]
Amateurs, in sport, [421]
American accent, the, [106]
American dislike of England, [43], [46], [98] sqq., [112], [430]
American journalists in London, [220]
"American methods," in business, [328]
American people, the, a bellicose people, [8];
its fondness for ideal, [10];
sensitive to criticism, [34];
dislike of subterfuges, [34];
an Anglo-Saxon people, [37], [87], [140];
and its leading men, [48];
foreign elements in, [58], [80], [227], [443];
self-reliant, [67];
resourceful, [70];
homogeneous, [80], [211], [451];
quick to move, [87];
"sense of the state" in, [89];
its ambitions, [90];
character of, influenced by the country, [97];
likes round numbers, [105];
its provincialism, [113];
its isolation, [116], [434];
effect of criticism on, [115], [157];
its attitude toward women, [119] sqq.;
its insularity, [146];
manners of, [147];
pushfulness, [148];
did not invent all progress, [151];
humour of, [152];
its literature, [157];
science, [159];
art, [160];
architecture, [160];
its self-confidence, [164];
factors in the education of, [171];
influence of the Civil War on, [188];
its hunger for culture, [189];
not superficial, [193], [204];
eclecticism, [194];
musical knowledge of, [199];
drama of, [201];
takes culture in paroxysms, [203];
looks to the future, [208];
political corruption in, [234];
great parties in, [256];
political sanity of, [284];
purifying itself, [300], [324], [336], [353], [364];
aristocracy in, [309];
shrinks from European commercial conditions, [331];
hatred of trusts, [331];
misrepresented by its press, [340];
contempt for hereditary legislators, [346];
commercial integrity, [351];
religious feeling in, [353];
insistence of an individuality, [382];
a character sketch, [448]
American speech, uniformity of, [85], [209]
Americanisms, in English speech, [209];
their origin in America, [216];
disappearing, [224]
Americans, at home in England, [36];
fraternise with English abroad, [38];
and "foreigners," [39];
as sailors, [62];
their ambitions, [90];
in London, [106];
ignorant of foreign affairs, [113];
treatment of women, [119] sqq.;
their insularity, [146];
energy, [148];
humour, [152];
what they think of English universities, [169];
pride of family in, [181];
know no "betters," [194];
ambitious of versatility, [205];
as linguists, [206];
purists in speech, [219];
cannot lie, [352];
as story-tellers, [366];
non-litigious, [394];
do not build for posterity, [396];
dislike stamps, [398];
as sportsmen, [409]
Anglais, l', [2], [37], [141]
Anglomania, [163]
Anglo-Saxon, family likeness, the, [35], [432];
particularist spirit, [37];
versatility, [74];
spirit in America, [87], [244];
superiority, [118];
attitude towards women, [140];
ideals in education, [170];
a fighting race, [187];
ambition to be versatile, [205];
and Celt in politics, [254];
superior morality of, [349];
pluck and energy, [381];
the sporting instinct, [426]
Anstey, F. L., his German professor, [156]
Archer, Wm., on the Anglo-Saxon type, [38];
on the American's outlook on the world, [97];
on pressing clothes, [214]
Architecture, American, [160]
Aristocracy, in the U. S., [309];
the British disreputable, [338], [442]
Arnold, Matthew, his judgment of Americans, [108];
his clothes, [108];
on American colleges, [167];
on American newspapers, [177];
on generals as booksellers, [185]
Art, American, [160];
feminine knowledge of, [182]
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad, the, [363]
Athletics in England and America, [420]
Atlantis, a new, [94]
B
Baldwin, W. H., [305]
Banks, American and English, [383]
Barnard College, [142]
Bears, bickering with, [381]
Bell-cord, divination by the, [363]
Benedick and Beatrice, [429]
Bonds, recoiling from, [236]
Books, advantage of reading, [172];
ease of buying, in America, [174];
prices of, [175];
publishing American, in England, [221]
Booksellers as soldiers, [185]
Bosses in politics, [239], [252], [274]
Boston, culture of, [195], [219]
Botticelli, [185]
Brewers as gentlemen, [315]
Bribery in American politics, [234]
"British," hatred of the name, [57]
British bondholders, [52]
British commerce, [52]
British Empire, American misunderstanding of, [20], [112], [151], [435];
its size, [437];
its beauty, [447]
Bryan, W. J., first nomination of, [234], [273];
and W. R. Hearst, [283]
Bryce, James, on American electoral system, [247];
on State sovereignty, [262];
on political corruption, [279];
on the U. S. Senate, [287]
Buffalo in New York, [416]
Buildings, tall, built in sections, [368]
Burke, Edward, in Ireland, [101];
indictment against a whole people, [101]
Business, as a career, [317];
its effect on mentality, [318];
the romance of American, [319];
frauds in, [324];
the tendency of modern, to consolidations, [330];
speculation in America, [386];
less ruthless in America, [388];
slipshod, [395];
principles of modern, [404]
C
California, the Japanese in, [263], [287]
Cambon, M. Paul, [139]
Campbell, Wilfred, in England, [92]
Canada, American investments in, [379]
Canadian opinion of England, [92];
resemblance to Americans, [379]
Carlyle, Thomas, [190]
Caruso, Signor, [384]
Celts, non-Anglo-Saxon, [254]
Century Club, the, [103]
Champagne Standard, The, [147]
Chaperons, [381], [393]
Chatham and American manufactures, [375]
Cheques, cashing, [383]
Chicago, pride in itself, [163];
pigs in, [177]
Civil War, the navy in the, [64];
causes of, [11];
magnitude of, [186];
its value to the people, [188], [218]
Classics, American reprints of English, [174]
Cleveland, Grover, on Venezuela, [43], [109]
Climate, the English, [121], [350]
Co-education, its effect on the sexes, [127];
in America, [142]
Colonies, destiny of British, [94]
Colquhoun, A. R., [113]
Commercial morality, [308]
Concord school, the, [157]
Congress, corruption in, [244];
compared with Parliament, [246], [249];
more honest than supposed, [252];
powers of, [289];
best men excluded from, [345]
Congressmen, how influenced, [247], [251];
how elected, [247];
log-rolling among, [249];
hampered by the Constitution, [402]
Conkling, Roscoe, [148]
Constitution, U. S., growth of, [6];
interpretation of, [288];
and Congress, [402]
Consular service, the American, [78]
Contract, a proposed international, [338]
Convention, a National Liberal, [270]
Copyright laws, English, faulty, [221]
Corporations, Mr. Roosevelt and the, [296];
persecuted by individual States, [403]
Corruption, in municipal affairs, [232], [239], [242];
in national affairs, [234];
in State legislatures, [235];
in English counties, [237];
in Congress, [244];
in the railway service, [361]
Court, U. S. Supreme, [400]
Criticism, English, of America, [116], [157];
American, of England, [117]
Croker, Richard, [278]
Cromwell as a fertiliser, [190]
Crooks, William, elected Premier, [271]
Crosland, W. H., [88]
Cuba as a cause of war, [12]
Cyrano de Bergerac, [196], [202]
D
Debtors favoured by laws, [403]
Democrats correspond to Liberals, [256]
Demolins, Edmond, on Anglo-Saxon superiority, [2];
on l'Anglais, [37]
Doctor, the making of a, [69]
"Dog eat dog," [388]
Domestic and imported goods, [163]
Drama, the, in England and America, [201]
Drunkenness, in London, [131]
Dunne, F. P., [154]
E
Education, in England and America, [166];
object of American, [193]
Elections, purity of, [229 (note)];
municipal, [239];
to Congress, [241];
of a Prime Minister, [265];
the last English general, [274];
virulence of American, [281]
Electric light, towns lighted by, [367]
Embalmed beef scandals, [341]
Emerson, R. W., on the Civil War, [188];
the apostle of the individual, [382]
English-made goods, [365], [373]
English society, changes in, [314]
English "style" in printing, [221]
Englishmen, local varieties of, [85];
effect of expansion on, [95];
feeling of, toward Americans, [99], [434];
as specialists, [105];
dropping their H's, [106];
check-suited, [108];
their cosmopolitanism, [114];
as husbands, [123];
insularity of, [145];
as grumblers, [149];
lecturing, [195];
as linguists, [206];
study of antiquity, [208];
careless of speech, [220];
in American politics, [226];
in English politics, [231];
political integrity of, [238], [278];
and business, [321];
misunderstand American people, [347];
the world's admiration of, [349];
religious feeling in, [353];
sense of honour in, [359];
commercial morality of, [365];
distrust American industrial stability, [371];
as investors in U. S. and Canada, [379];
slowness of, [380];
as sportsmen, [415];
admirable qualities of, [448]
European plan, the, [104]
Exhibition, an American, in London, [161]
F
Federal Government, the, and Illinois, [262];
and Louisiana, [262];
and California, [263];
powers of, [288]
Federalism, progress of, in America, [217]
Feminism, [139]
Ferguson, [133]
Fliegende Blätter, [153]
Football in England, [412]
Foreign elements in the American people, [58], [80], [82], [138], [226]
Forty-fourth Regiment, the, [40]
France, England's entente with, [8];
and American commerce, [378]
Franklin, Benjamin, his Autobiography, [157];
and English political morality, [280]
Frauds in American business, [324]
Free silver, poison, the, [235];
campaign of 1896, [280]
Freeman, E. A., on the Englishman of America, [42]
Frenchmen, opinions of, [2], [36], [37], [92], [139], [177], [378];
attitude towards women, [120];
towards learning, [205]
Frontier life, as a discipline, [72], [381]
G
Gentleman, Bismarck's parole de, [234]
Gentlemen, brewers as, [315];
and business men, [316];
in sport, [420]
Gentlemen's agreement, the, [354]
George, Lloyd, [334]
Germans, outnumber Irish in N. Y., [58];
attitude toward women, [120], [140];
humour of, [153];
laboriousness of, [205];
in politics, [226], [255];
as judges of honesty, [351 (note)];
in sport, [426]
Germany, ambitions of, [29];
Monroe Doctrine aimed at, [46]
Gibson, C. D., [160]
Girl, the American, [130]
Gladstone, W. E., American admiration for, [167];
on Japan, [205]
Golf, the power of, [409]
Granger agitation, the, [298]
Gravel-pit, politics in a, [282]
Great Britain, peaceful disposition of, [8], [23];
pride of, [14], [61];
desires alliance with U. S., [19];
American hostility to, in 1895, [46];
its nearness to America geographically, [50];
commercially, [52];
historically, [54];
America's only enemy, [55];
its army in S. Africa, [75];
diversity of tongues in, [85];
Norman influence in, [87];
Canadian opinion of, [92];
miraculously enlarged, [94];
insularity of, [145];
luck of, [149];
cannot be judged from London, [150];
class distinctions disappearing, [212];
politics in, [231];
municipal bosses in, [232];
American conditions transplanted to, [237], [266];
electing a Prime Minister in, [270];
municipal politics in, [279];
becoming democratised, [314];
a creditor nation, [323];
trust-ridden, [329];
wealth of, [386];
solicitor-cursed, [393];
as the mother of sports, [414];
preoccupation of, [433]
"Grieg, the American," [200]
H
Hague, Conference at The, [17]
Hanotaux, Gabriel, on American commerce, [378]
Harrison, Benjamin, [47]
Hays, C. M., [310]
Hearst, W. R., and England, [46];
bad influence of, [282];
inventor of the yellow press, [342 (note)]
Hell-box, the, [281]
Helleu, Paul, [196]
Higginson, T. W., on American temperament, [2]
Hill, James J., [310]
Hoar, U. S. Senator, on England, [1];
on the hatred of the British, [57]
Homer as a Tory, [257]
Homogeneousness of the American people, [83], [211], [451]
Hotel, the Fifth Avenue, [122]
Hotels, ladies' entrances to, [120]
Howells, W. D., [147]
Hughitt, Marvin, [311], [359]
Humour, American and English, [152]
I
Ideals, American devotion to, [10]
Illinois and the Federal Government, [262]
Immigration problem, the, [81]
India, [112]
Indians, red, regard of, for Englishmen, [349];
in the war of Independence, [350 (note)];
Turkish baths of, [363]
Individuality, American insistence on, [382], [391]
Insularity, English and American, [145]
International sentiments, how formed, [291]
Ireland, Burke's feeling for, [101]
Irish, the influence of, against England, [58], [444];
attitude towards women, [140];
vote in politics, [227];
as a corrupting influence, [252];
non-Anglo-Saxon, [254];
lack independence, [255];
in New York, [277]
Irving, Washington, on frontiersmen, [381]
Italians, in municipal politics, [241], [253];
lynched in New Orleans, [262]
J
James, Henry, [155]
Japan, England's alliance with, [8];
its eclectic method, [193];
Mr. Gladstone on, [205];
and California, [263], [287];
tin-tacks for, [375]
Japanese, in California, [263];
British admiration of, [351];
watering their horses, [367];
as "John," [376]
Johnson, Samuel, [132]
Joint purses, [332]
Jonson, Ben, [215]
Justice in American courts, [400]
K
King George men, [349]
Kipling, Rudyard, his "type-writer girl," [132];
"The Sea Wife," [187];
"The Monkey-Puzzler," [380];
"An Error in the Fourth Dimension," [408]
L
La Farge, John, [103], [161]
Lang, Andrew, on Americanisms, [221]
Law, Bonar, [334]
Legislators must read and write, [71]
Legislatures, quality of American State, [79], [401]
Letters, two, [389]
Lewis, Alfred Henry, [154]
Liberals, English, and Democrats, [256];
influence of, on American thought, [346]
"Liberty, that damned absurd word," [10]
Life, New York, [129], [162]
Literature, English ignorance of American, [157]
Litigation, American dislike of, [394]
"Live and let live," [388]
Lobbyists, [244]
Locomotives, temporary and permanent, [396]
Log-rolling, [249]
London, foreign affairs in, [114];
Strand improvements, [151];
"raining in," [163];
a Tammany Hall in, [232]
Lord, Englishmen's love of a, [309]
Lords, the House of, and the U. S. Senate, [313];
a defence of, [342]
Louisiana and the Federal Government, [262]
Loyal Legion, the, [187], [189]
Luck, English belief in, [108]
Lying, American ability in, [352]
Lynchings, [302]
M
MacDowell, Edward, [200]
Mafia in New Orleans, [263]
Magazines, American, [160], [171], [180]
Mansfield, Richard, [202]
Max O'Rell, on John Bull and Jonathan, [36], [92];
on American newspapers, [177]
Merchant marine, the American, [63]
Mexico, possible annexation of, [27]
Mining camp life, [70], [132]
"Molly-be-damned," [134]
Monopolies, artificial and natural, [407]
Moore, Zeluco, [119]
Morality, of the two people, sexual, [120];
political, see under [Corruption];
commercial, [308], [400];
sporting, [426]
Morgan, Pierpont, [358]
Mormons and ants, [214]
Morris, Clara, [201]
Mount Stephen, Lord, [310]
Municipal politics, [231], [239], [242]
Münsterberg, Hugo, on England, [36];
on American commercial ethics, [351];
on sport, [426]
Music in England and America, [198]
N
N—— G——, [125]
Navarro, Madame de, [201]
Navigating, how to learn, [70]
Navy, the American, [62]
Negro problem, the, [301]
New Orleans, battle of, [41];
the Mafia in, [263]
New York, not typically American, [72];
proud of London, [163];
culture of, [219];
Irish influence in, [256];
in national politics, [277]
Newspapers, American and English, [177];
sensationalism in, [326];
peculiarities of American, [340]
Norman influence in England, [87]
Northern Pacific Railroad, the, [361]
Norton, James, [163]
O
Operas, American knowledge of, [198]
Opportunity, America and, [387]
Oxenstiern, Count, [149]
Oxford, value of, [169]
P
Packing-house scandals, [326]
Panic, financial, the, of 1907, [325], [402]
Parliament, railway influence in, [246];
compared with Congress, [249], [344]
Parsnips, [102]
Parties, the two great, in America, [256];
interdependence of national and local organisations, [264]
Patronage, party, [265]
Peace, universal, the possibility of, [13], [32], [431]
Peerage, an American, [310];
democracy of the British, [316];
morals of, [338]
Pheasants in London, [416]
Philadelphia, corruption in, [252]
Philistinism in England and America, [185]
Pigs, in Chicago, [177];
how to roast, [372]
Pilgrims, the Society of, [47]
Platform in American sense, [215]
Poet's Corner, [132]
Police, corruption through the, [232]
Politics, American, the foreign vote in, [227], [443];
the "best people" in, [228], [441];
what it means in America, [230];
municipal, [231];
Republican and Democrat, meaning of, [256];
national and municipal, [264];
President Roosevelt in, [300]
Polo, American, [412]
Pooling, railway, [332], [357]
Poppycock, [426]
Postal laws, [171]
Posters, American humour and, [155]
Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt and the, [293]
Protection, policy of, [65], [245], [253]
Publishers, American and English, [222]
Punch, London, [152], [198]
Putnam, Herbert, and H. G. Wells, [93]
R
Railways, oppression of, by States, [297], [403];
pooling by, [332];
working agreements in English, [333];
English and American attitude towards, contrasted, [334];
morality on American, [355];
and English, [359];
peculation on, [361];
and the Standard Oil Co., [392]
Reed, E. T., [154]
Reich, Dr. Emil, [126]
Religious feeling of the two peoples, [353]
Re-mount scandal, [341]
Representative system, the, [247]
Republican party, the, in Philadelphia, [252];
corresponds to English conservatives, [256]
Reverence, American lack of, [48], [76]
Rhodes, Cecil, [319]
Rhodes scholarships, [166]
River and harbour bills, [249]
Robin, the American, [215]
Robinson, Philip, on Chicago, [177]
Rodin, A., [196]
Roman Catholic Church in relation to women, [140]
Roosevelt, imaginary telegram from, [16];
and the merchant marine, [66];
and purity of elections, [229 (note)];
and post-route doctrine, [290];
his influence for good, [293];
his commonplace virtues, [293 (note)];
inventor of the "'fraid strap," [294];
"Teddy" or "Theodore," [295];
an aristocrat, [295];
and the corporations, [296];
misrepresentation of, [298];
as a politician, [300];
his imperiousness, [301];
and the negro problem, [305];
and wealth, [336];
as peacemaker, [445]
Rostand, M. E., [196]
Ruskin, John, price of his books, [175];
on America's lack of castles, [191];
on Tories, [257]
Russia, England's agreement with, [8]
S
S—— B——, the Hon., [108]
Sailors, British and American, fraternise, [39];
Americans as, [63]
Schools, American, [170];
English, [176]
Schurz, Carl, on American intelligence, [2]
Schuyler, Montgomery, [103]
Scotland, religious feeling in, [354]
Sea-wife's sons, the, [187]
Senate, the, its place in the Constitution, [286];
treaty-making power of, [287];
and the House of Lords, [313]
Sepoys, blown from cannon, [112]
Shakespeare in America, [195]
Shaw, Albert, [451]
Ship subsidies, [64]
Shooting in America, [418]
Sky-scrapers, [368]
Speculation in America, [387]
Smith, Sydney, on women speaking, [79]
Society, American, mixed, [182], [442]
Soldiers, American and British, in China, [39];
compared, [61];
material for, in U. S., [75];
British, in S. Africa, [75];
as farm hands, [186];
as Presidents, [187]
Solicitors, [393]
South, the dying spirit of the, [306]
Southerners, in Northern States, [228];
lynchings by, [303]
Spanish war, the, reasons for, [11];
England's feeling in, [60];
effect on the American people, [113]
Sparks, Edwin E., on frontiersmen, [382]
Speech, uniformity of American, [85];
American and English compared, [209], [219];
purism in, [219]
Sport, amateur, in America, [409]
Stage, the American, [201]
Stamp tax, American dislike of, [398]
Stamped paper, [398]
Standard Oil Co., [391]
State legislatures, corruption in, [235];
shortcomings of, [401]
States, governments of the, [260];
sovereignty of, [261], [285], [290];
and English counties, [264 (note)];
justice in, [401]
Steel, American competition in, [375]
Steevens, G. W., on Anglo-American alliance, [3];
on American feeling for England, [100]
Stenographers as hostesses, [132]
Stevenson, R. L., on American speech, [85]
Strap, the 'fraid, [294]
Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord, [310]
Style, American and English literary, [221]
Superficiality of Americans, [193], [204]
Surveyor, the making of a, [69]
T
Table d'hôte in America, [104]
Tammany Hall, [278]
Taxes, corrupt assessment of, [242]
Thackeray, W. M., on Anglo-American friendship, [1]
Thomas, Miss M. Carey, [143]
Thoreau, his Walden, [157]
Throne, the British, as a democratic force, [335]
Tin-tacks for Japan, [375]
Travis, W. J., [408]
Treaties, inability of U. S. to enforce, [263], [285];
how made in America, [286]
Truesdale, W. H., [359]
Trusts, Mr. Roosevelt and the, [295];
in England and America, [329], [334], [391];
beneficial, [406]
U
Unit rule, the, [267], [270]
United States, the, has become a world-power, [6];
in danger of war, [8];
power of, [14];
expansion of, [24];
further from England than England from it, [50];
the future of, [90];
size of, [94];
the equal of Great Britain, [163];
unification of, [217];
politics in, [227];
Congress of, [244];
and Italy, [262];
and Japan, [263];
its treaty relations with other powers, [286];
a peerage in, [310];
its reckless youth, [323];
has sown its wild oats, [324];
growth of, [364];
commercial power of, [371];
a debtor nation, [384]
Universities, American and English, [167]
Usurpation by the general government, [289]
V
Van Horne, Sir William, [310]
Venezuelan incident, the, [43], [156]
Verestschagin, Vasili, [197], [202]
Vigilance Committees, [302], [364]
Vote, foreign in America, the, [227]
Voting, premature, [227]
W
Wall Street methods, [326]
War stores scandal, [341]
Washington, Booker, [305]
Wealth, President Roosevelt and, [296];
its diffusion in America, [330];
no counterpoise to, in U. S., [335];
purchasing power of, in England and America, [335 (note)];
prejudice against, [403]
Wells, H. G., on American "sense of the State," [89];
on the lack of an upper class in America, [309 (note)];
on trade, [404]
West, the feeling of, for the East, [73];
English ignorance of, [200];
Yankee distrust of, [369]
West Indies, transfer to the U. S., [32]
West Point, incident at, [41]
Whiskey and literature, [175]
Wild-fowling, [418]
Winter, E. W., [359]
Woman, an American, in England, [103];
in Westminster Abbey, [132];
in a mining camp, [133];
on a train, [134]
Women, American attitude toward, [119] sqq.;
in the streets of cities, [120];
English, in America, [122];
English treatment of, [123];
the morality of married, [129];
adaptability of American, [137];
their share in civic life, [137];
Anglo-Saxon attitude toward, [140];
effect of co-education on, [143];
culture of American, [182];
musical knowledge of American, [198]
World, the N. Y., [342 (note)]
Y
Yankee, the real, [369];
earls, [440]
Yellow press, the, [327], [340], [342 (note)]

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