the use
of statistics, in spite of frequent temptation to refer to them to
fortify arguments which must without them appear to be merely the
expression of an individual opinion.

H. P. R.

February, 1908.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

PAGE

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE 5

The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction
Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United
States, no less than those of England, Demand an Alliance--But
Larger Interests than those of the Two Peoples are
Involved--American Responsiveness to Ideals--The Greatest
Ideal of All, Universal Peace: the Practicability of its
Attainment--America's Responsibility--Misconceptions of the
British Empire--Germany's Position--American Susceptibilities.

CHAPTER II

THE DIFFERENCE IN POINT OF VIEW 35

The Anglo-Saxon Family Likeness--How Frenchmen and Germans
View it--Englishmen, Americans, and "Foreigners"--An Echo of
the War of 1812--An Anglo-American Conflict Unthinkable--
American Feeling for England--The Venezuelan Incident--The
Pilgrims and Some Secret History--Why Americans still Hate
England--Great Britain's Nearness to the United States
Geographically--Commercially--Historically--England's Foreign
Ill-wishers in America.

CHAPTER III

TWO SIDES OF THE AMERICAN CHARACTER 60

Europe's Undervaluation of America's Fighting Power--The
Americans as Sailors--The Nation's Greatest Asset--Self-reliance
of the People--The Making of a Doctor--And of a Surveyor--
Society in the Rough--New York and the Country--An Anglo-Saxon
Trait--America's Unpreparedness--American Consuls and Diplomats--
A Homogeneous People--The Value of a Common Speech--America
more Anglo-Saxon than Britain--Mr. Wells and the Future in
America.

CHAPTER IV

MUTUAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS 94

America's Bigness--A New Atlantis--The Effect of Expansion on
a People--A Family Estranged--Parsnips--An American Woman in
England--An Englishman in America--International Caricatures--
Shibboleths: dropped H's and a "twang"--Matthew Arnold's