...Sydney Smith, as late as January, 1820, asked, in the " Edinburgh," that'wellknown and stingmg question, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Even at -home, " Hesper " and " The Mount of Vision " soon faded out of sight. At that time, 1808...

...an American book, or looks at an American flag, or beholds an American statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? Who drinks in American glasses, or eats from American plates, or wears American coats, or sleeps...

...fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States ( 1820). Magnificent spectacle of human happiness....

...the fuar quarters of the globe, who reads an Ameri can book, or goes to an American play, or looks it an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons?" If the celebrated Edinburgh Ке«етгег — who paid one of our countrymen I>AMF.L...

...may assume. Not quite forty years ago Sydney Smith spoke thus of American science and literature : " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they done in mathematics ? " Literature the Americans have none — no native...

...for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy.— [ER 1820.] WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? IN the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...their chemists discovered ? or what old ones have they analysed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they...

...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...their chemists discovered ? or what old ones have thej analyzed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans ? What...

...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this selfadulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...surgeons? What new substances have their chemists dis covered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the...

...sands of time." More than half a century ago, Sidney Smith impertinently asked: "What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances...discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed?" To the Sidney Smiths of to-day, we say that the world owes more to American physicians and surgeons...

...have effectually disposed of the query put many years ago in England by a high literary authority — "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " There are three special ways in which we may look at Longfellow, viz., as a lyric poet, as a narrative...