I never saw yellow and red together on any American book.
"The English are far beyond us in their highest scholarship, but why should they be ignorant of our scholars?
The Englishman is proud, and not without reason; but he may well be proud of the American offshoot.
It is not strange that England produces fine scholars, when we consider that her colleges confer fellowships on the best undergraduates.
"England differs from America in the fact that it has a past.

Well may the great men of the present be proud of those who have gone before them; it is scarcely to be hoped that the like can come after them; and yet I suppose we must admit that even now the strong minds are born across the water.
"At the same time England has a class to which we have happily no parallel in our country--a class to which even English gentlemen liken the Sepoys, and who would, they admit, under like circumstances be guilty of like enormities.

But the true Englishman shuts his eyes for a great part of the time to the steps in the social scale down which his race descends, and looks only at the upper walks.

He has therefore a glance of patronizing kindness for the people of the United States, and regards us of New England as we regard our rich brethren of the West.
"I wondered what was to become of the English people! Their island is already crowded with people, the large towns are numerous and are very large.

Suppose for an instant that her commerce is cut off, will they starve?
It is an illustration of moral power that, little island as that of Great Britain is, its power is the great power of the world.
"Crowded as the people are, they are healthy.