a, 75;
as farm hands, 186;
as Presidents, 187

Solicitors, 393

South, the dying spirit of the, 306

Southerners, in Northern States, 228;
lynchings by, 303

Spanish war, the, reasons for, 11;
England's feeling in, 60;
effect on the American people, 113

Sparks, Edwin E., on frontiersmen, 382

Speech, uniformity of American, 85;
American and English compared, 209, 219;
purism in, 219

Sport, amateur, in America, 409

Stage, the American, 201

Stamp tax, American dislike of, 398

Stamped paper, 398

Standard Oil Co., 391

State legislatures, corruption in, 235;
shortcomings of, 401

States, governments of the, 260;
sovereignty of, 261, 285, 290;
and English counties, 264 (note);
justice in, 401

Steel, American competition in, 375

Steevens, G. W., on Anglo-American alliance, 3;
on American feeling for England, 100

Stenographers as hostesses, 132

Stevenson, R. L., on American speech, 85

Strap, the 'fraid, 294

Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord, 310

Style, American and English literary, 221

Superficiality of Americans, 193, 204

Surveyor, the making of a, 69

T

_Table d'hote_ in America, 104

Tammany Hall, 278

Taxes, corrupt assessment of, 242

Thackeray, W. M., on Anglo-American friendship, 1

Thomas, Miss M. Carey, 143

Thoreau, his _Walden_, 157

Throne, the British, as a democratic force, 335

Tin-tacks for Japan, 375

Travis, W. J., 408

Treaties, inability of U. S. to enforce, 263, 285;
how made in America, 286

Truesdale, W. H., 359

Trusts, Mr. Roosevelt and the, 295;
in England and America, 329, 334, 391;
beneficial, 406

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Unit rule, the, 267, 270

United States, the, has become a world-power, 6;
in danger of war, 8;
power of, 14;
expansion of, 24;
further from England than England from it, 50;
the future of, 90;
size of, 94;
the equal of Great Britain, 163;
unification of, 217;
politics in, 227;
Congress of, 244;
and Italy, 262;
and Japan, 263;
its treaty relations with other powers, 286;
a peerage in, 310;
its reckless youth, 323;
has sown i