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A WORD MORE ABOUT AMERICA.
REVIEW OF THE YEAR.
THE POETRY OF TENNYSON.
ON AN OLD SONG.
THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE.
STIMULANTS AND NARCOTICS.
FOLK-LORE FOR SWEETHEARTS.
A ROMANCE OF A GREEK STATUE.
THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT.
LORD TENNYSON.
IN THE NORWEGIAN MOUNTAINS.
THE QUANDONG’S SECRET.
DE BANANA.
TURNING AIR INTO WATER.
THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF THE JEWS.
THE HITTITES.
AUTOMATIC WRITING, OR THE RATIONALE OF PLANCHETTE.
SCIENTIFIC VERSUS BUCOLIC VIVISECTION.
NOTES ON POPULAR ENGLISH.
LITERARY NOTICES.
FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES.
MISCELLANY.
Eclectic Magazine
OF
FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
| New Series. Vol. XLI., No. 4. | APRIL, 1885. | Old Series complete in 63 vols. |
A WORD MORE ABOUT AMERICA.
BY MATTHEW ARNOLD.
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When I was at Chicago last year, Iwas asked whether Lord Coleridge wouldnot write a book about America. Iventured to answer confidently for himthat he would do nothing of the kind.Not at Chicago only, but almost whereverI went, I was asked whether I myselfdid not intend to write a bookabout America. For oneself one cananswer yet more confidently than forone’s friends, and I always replied thatmost assuredly I had no such intention.To write a book about America, on thestrength of having made merely such atour there as mine was, and with nofull