...followed by that rattling volley of pointed questions which has come echoing down the corridors of time: " 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? Who drinks out of American glasses ? or eats from American...

...into that extravagance of insularity. Sidney Smith gave an illustration of it when he wrote hi 1820, "Who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Well, at that very time, a noted English poet, Thomas Campbell, had read the poems of Philip Freneau...

...interesting to remember that it was just a century ago that Sydney Smith uttered his famous query: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play?" in blissful ignorance of the crowds that had thronged Drury Lane a year before to witness John Howard...

...honest we shall have to admit that when Sydney Smith propounded the best remembered of his queries, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " our forefathers would have been hard put to find a fair and favorable answer, because the books...

...the Christian Observer, London, in July, 1818, two years before Sidney Smith flippantly inquired, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The Observer, after a long extract from the closing sermon, which was one delivered at the opening...

...JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY . 384 WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT 400 LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC PART n 1821-1834 In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? SYDNEY SMITH. AD 1820. The public expectation, which had been raised so high by the character of...

...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. — [E. /?. i82o.} WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? — 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 the mathematics ? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on Seybert's Annals oj the United States. America has proved that it is...