I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American..

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers..

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to gi….

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privi….