...the fuar quarters of the globe, who reads an Ameri can book, or goes to an American play, or looks it an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons?" If the celebrated Edinburgh Ке«етгег — who paid one of our countrymen I>AMF.L...

...may assume. Not quite forty years ago Sydney Smith spoke thus of American science and literature : " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they...

...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this selfadulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...surgeons? What new substances have their chemists dis covered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the...

...sands of time." More than half a century ago, Sidney Smith impertinently asked: "What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances...their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed?" To the Sidney Smiths of to-day, we say that the world owes more to American physicians and...

...have effectually disposed of the query put many years ago in England by a high literary authority — "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " There are three special ways in which we may look at Longfellow, viz., as a lyric poet, as a narrative...

...him to death. Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States (1820). 1 Compare Dryden, ante, p. 240. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review on Seykerf s Annals of the United States (1820). Magnificent spectacle of human happiness....

...SULLIVAN. VOL. V. JUNE, 1875. NUMBER 10. THE WORKS AND LANGUAGE OF LONGFELLOW. PROGRESS OF AMERICAN POETRY. "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ?" Half a century has passed since Sydney Smith wrote thus in the Edinburgh Review, and that period...

...four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks upon an American picture or statue ? What does the world...their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans ? What have they...

...arts, for literature, or even for the statesmanlike studies of politics and political economy. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks upon an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?...

...wise advisers. MOTLEY'S UNITED NETHEKLANDS. 1 « TN the four quarters of the globe, who reads an JL American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?" So wrote Sydney Smith about forty years ago. And, allowing for the peculiar style of the accomplished...