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Title: The Land of Contrasts
A Briton's View of His American Kin

Author: James Fullarton Muirhead

Release Date: January 31, 2006 [EBook #17648]

Language: English

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The
Land of Contrasts

_A Briton's View of his American Kin_

By

James Fullarton Muirhead

Author of _Baedeker's Handbooks to Great Britain
and the United States_

Lamson, Wolffe and Company
Boston, New York and London
_MDCCCXCVIII._

Copyright, 1898
By Lamson, Wolffe and Company
_All rights reserved_

Press of
Rockwell and Churchill
BOSTON, U.S.A.

_To
The Land
That has given me
What makes Life most worth living_

Contents

Chapter Page

I. Introductory 1

II. The Land of Contrasts 7

III. Lights and Shadows of American Society 24

IV. An Appreciation of the American Woman 45

V. The American Child 63

VI. International Misapprehensions and National Differences 74

VII. Sports and Amusements 106

VIII. The Humour of the "Man on the Cars" 128

IX. American Journalism--A Mixed Blessing 143

X. Some Literary Straws 162

XI. Certain Features of Certain Cities 190

XII. Baedekeriana 219

XIII. The American Note 273

Author's Note

My first visit to the United States of America--a short one--was paid
in 1888. The observations on which this book is mai