English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters

by Max O'Rell

To Jonathan.

You have been kind enough to receive favorably two volumes of unpretentious impressions of your great and most hospitable country, published in 1889 and 1891.

You are a dear friend and a delightful fellow. You are on the road that will safely lead you to the discovery of everything that can insure the prosperity of the land of which you are so justly proud.

Yet the Old World can teach you something; not how to work, but how to live.

I have drawn a few sketches for you. Perhaps they will show you that people can be happy without rolling in wealth, or living in a furnace.

Take up this little book and, lighting a cigar, lie down quietly on the grass and read it under the shade of a tree.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	Foreigners	1
[II.]	John Bull up to Date	9
[III.]	Jacques Bonhomme, the Landed Peasant-Proprietor of France	17
[IV.]	Jacqueline, the Fortune of France	27
[V.]	Joseph Prudhomme, the Jog-Trot Middle-Class Frenchman	33
[VI.]	Entertaining Neighbors	47
[VII.]	French Impulsiveness and British Sangfroid Illustrated by Two Reminiscences	53
[VIII.]	English Pharisees and French Crocodiles	57
[IX.]	French and English Social Failures	69
[X.]	High-Life Anglo-French Gibberish as Used in France and England	79
[XI.]	Humor, Wit, and Hibernianism	87
[XII.]	The Mal de Mer	95
[XIII.]	British Philosophy and French Sensitiveness	107
[XIV.]	The French Snob	123
[XV.]	A Success as an Anglophobist. (The Late Marquis de Boissy)	127
[XVI.]	Woman Worship	131
[XVII.]	Faith and Reason	139
[XVIII.]	The Worship of the Golden Calf	153
[XIX.]	Why the French were Beaten in 1870	173
[XX.]	England Works for Herself. The World Owes Her Nothing	177
[XXI.]	The Spirit of Destruction and the Spirit Of Conservatism	183
[XXII.]	Order and Liberty	191
[XXIII.]	The Humors of Politics	209
[XXIV.]	Lords and Senators	225
[XXV.]	What France Has Done to Merit the Respect Of the World	231

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