The theory that the American was a degenerate Englishmana theory chiefly due to American teachingslay at the bottom of British politics.

But the Anglo-American is an existing fact, to be spoken of without prognostication, save as this is implied in the recognition of tendencies established and unfolding into results.

Every American is not a Columbus.

But that one educated American should become her disciple and follow her insane teachings is a marvel.

They are not quite ready to subscribe to Mr. Kipling's statement that the real American is "Unkempt, disreputable, vast," I remember reading somewhere that Tennyson had an idea that Longfellow, when he met him, would put his feet upon the table.

In the latter case, the so-called "American" may really be a German, an Irishman, an Englishman, or a Swede, but the qualities which I would distinguish by the word "American" have not yet been developed in him, although they will probably be exhibited by his later descendants.

The American is not only a humorous person, he is a practical person.

In spite of all which satirical writers have said and say of the loquacious egotism, the questioning curiosity of our people, it is true to-day that the average American is a reticent, taciturn, speechless creature, who, for his own sake, and still more for the sake of all who love him, needs, more than he needs any thing else under heaven, to learn to speak.

The American could not have been nearer the truth.

The American is an outsider to them all; some strange melting-pot product of many races which is trying to forget the prejudices and hates of the old world and perhaps not succeeding very well, but not yet convinced that the best means of producing patriotic unity is war.

At this time Benjamin West the American was President of the Royal Academy and at the zenith of his power and fame.

A real American must necessarily also be a graduate of Harvard, a Unitarian, an allopath, belong to the Somerset Club and date back ancestrally at least to King Philip's War.

The ambassador at the capital of the Empire at first sought to excuse him on the ground of ignorance; but the Grand Duke insisted that even an American could not be such a fool as Chase had been; so, it must have been a wilful offence that led up to the controversy.

Howe was out-generalled, and the American remained master of the field.

He knew by that time that the American was a nervous, excitable individual who now and then took on tremendous fits of work in which he hustled and bustled everybody around him, but he had never seen him quite so excited and eager as now.

Thus it occurs that the American is that man who is grappling most earnestly and intelligently with the problem of man's relation to man.

The only American killed was Lennon, a half brother of Ammi White, my Indian agent at the Pima villages.

If we turn to the left on leaving S. Trinità, instead of losing ourselves in the little streets, we are in the Via Tornabuoni, where the best shops are and American is the prevailing language.

This distinguished American was a native of county Wicklow.

Do you not think that Citizen Cluseret, although an American, is an excellent patriot, and "In consideration of Neuilly being in ruins, and of this happy result being chiefly due to the glorious resistance organized by the delegate Citizen Cluseret, decrees: That the destroyer of Neuilly, Citizen Cluseret, has merited the gratitude of France and the Republic.

Jean tried to console him by saying that even though this American, Madame Scott, were not a Catholic, she was known to be generous, and would no doubt give him money for the poor.

Neither the American nor our own European system is the right or dignified course.

That the Americans were subjects of the British crown.

And if I take this Americanwell, the Americans are so new a nation they have still a moral sense.

H. Seward, on his return from a late trip around the world, said, "Americans are now the fashion all over the world.