Gtk Aug.
'TE Englishman is no less a man than Mr. Frederic Harrison. His paper is called "Impressions of America," and as such must not be taken for more than their author intends. "Boundless expanse" is the first idea brought home to the mind of the visitor. A continent, nota country, lies before him. The next is the paradox that, with all the differences, "in spite of the geographical isolation and the physical conditions, the citizen of the United States is at heart much the same man as the subject of King Edward that life is the same, mutatis mutandis; that the intellectual, social, and religious tone is nearly identical; that the proverbial differences we hear of have been absurdly exaggerated." No radical difference, the Atlantic less a barrier than the Irish sea, that isthe conclusion. A mixture of all the races of Europe, the States are yet "run" by Americans of home
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.