"America Comes of Age", a cent book by Prof. Andre Siegfried, being much discussed in both America and Europe, writes Mr. Charles Hooper from Idaho, U.S.A.
very surprising that' a for-ignor has acquired so intimate a knowledge of America. This clever} Frenchman makes some remarkably shrewd observations, for instance, when he refers to "Americans "extraordinarily lacking in critical scone," when he says that one of the most typical traits in American characteris "exaggeration—in thought and action," and when he speaks of "service" in these terms:
the end service' is the doctrine of an optimistic Pharisee trying to reconcile success with justice." He is not quite so shrewd when he seems to accept the common European opinion that all Americans are ich, and when he uses the following words in speaking of the colour problem: "No matter which way we turn in the North or the South, there seems to be no solution. The problem is an abyss into wwe can look only with ternot agree with him here, professor's: become sooner or later the guiding force in the Anglo-Saxon family, but the day when they will be the Leaders of the whole white race is much further off." He is right. England is still the father of the nations, but (mixing the metaphor)
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