So Howe, pro-American in politics and temporizer in the field, manoeuvred round his own headquarters at New York until October, when he sailed south to Philadelphia.

And I venture to address these new Letters directly to yourself, as to that American of all others to whom this second chapter on England's Effort may look for sympathy.

Colonel A (the reader will learn why I give neither his name nor real rank) spoke with some bitterness of the inquisitiveness which rendered it impossible, he said, to trust an American with a secret, and very difficult to keep one without lying.

These are the complements of the British books mentioned above, as they emphasize the American point of view and draw more from American than from British sources of original information.

He declared that he was a better American than many present, as he was an American from choice, and they by necessity.

" AMERICANS AT FISMES

He realized how strange and strong was the need in him to prove he was American to the very core of his heart.

Carrel, though a native-born Frenchman, is an American by education and citizenship, and the French were at first inclined to challenge the value of his work.

The muscles are all there; they count the same in the American as in the French or the Irish face; they relax easily in youth; the trick can be learned.

When he answered it was to explain, with the utmost kindness, that if he took me aboard his ship it would be to forfeit his word of honor to the Turkish Government, his pledge to take only citizens of neutral countries; that he could not consider me an American on the strength of my first papers; and that any such evasion might lead to serious complications for him and for his Government.

she asked, looking to the American for assent.

You are the only native American among us, Joyce exceptedfor we count the blacks as nothing in respect to countrymay feel that I am an Englishman born, as I fear has been the case with the rest of your friends.

Look here," he continued, when he had led the American into the bedroom and had closed the door.

THIS INTERESTING DIALOGUE WAS WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN ABOUT 1800 The following dialogue took place between Mr. Jackson the master of a family, and the slave of one of his neighbors who lived adjoining the town, on this occasion.

Then he relinquished his gaze and turned his monocle blankly upon the American beside him.

An English sailor escorted the American over the vessel, and coming to a raised brass tablet on the deck he said, as he reverently removed his hat: "'Ere, sir, is the spot where Lord Nelson fell.

He was conscious of an almost contemptuous iciness in her greeting, and that mentally she was unfavorably comparing him, the simply dressed, serious young American before her, with the splendid courtiers who crowded around.

The Paris the host of the idler and the traveller; the Paris of the boulevards and the night life provided for the tourist; the Paris that sparkled and smiled in entertainment; the Paris exploited to the average American through Sunday supplements and the reminiscences of smoking-rooms of transatlantic liners, was dead.

My friend the director says, that, if you put a single American against a single European watch, the foreign may vary a second less in a certain time; but if you will put fifty or a hundred native against the same number of foreign watches, the native group will be uniformly more accurate.

They had all the extraordinary thoughtful kindness and chivalry which marks every American towards women, but they weren't a bit auntish or grandmammaish.

Nothing struck me more forcibly than an American under the razor or brush: in any and every other circumstance of life full of activity and energy, under the razor or brush he is the picture of indolence and helplessness.

HAPPINESS Lord Tankerville, in New York, said of the international school question: "The subject of the American versus the English school has been too much discussed.

"I did so want to be an American like the rest of you.

Now the indictment I have drawn up harshly, bluntly and unflatteringly in Sec. 4 would receive the endorsement of American after American.