Author: Hans Wolfgang Singer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-03

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780267645527

Excerpt from James McNeill Whistler In what other country but America could one meet With self-banter of this description! The Old World is apt to be irritated at American Chauvinism, but only with the object of concealing its own - if possible. No denizen of the Eastern hemisphere compares with the American in wittily and unsparingly laying bare his own weaknesses. From time to time - now, fortunately, less frequently than in the past - Eumpean journals dish up the most fatuous reports or anecdotes con cerning every function of human life, Which are invariably ear-marked as Typically American. The hawkers of such notices, however, invariably demonstrate with unfailing accuracy that they have not the faintest notion of what is typically American. There is plenty that is fabulous, silly, incredible, overwhelming, mysterious, and grotesque in other countries than America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.