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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 6 : Lowell 's closing years in Cambridge (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 8 : local fiction (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 16 : Anglomania and Anglophobia (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 17 : English and American gentlemen (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 18 : the future of polite society (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 20 : classes and masses (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 21 : international marriages (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 22 : more mingled races (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 27 : the antidote to money (search)
Chapter 27: the antidote to money
One can hardly read the letters from Europe describing fashionable society without discovering that it is perfectly possible for Americans, even those who have been regarded at home as rather vulgar and pushing, to get at least far enough in the English circles of fashion to see and describe the grandest functions.
How the knowledge is obtained is not the question.
Like the snubbed man of the world in the inimitable Dolly Dialogues, these witnesses may at least claim that if they do not meet Lord Mickleham socially they know his valet.
Even in the smaller field of America it is known that old John, the black head-waiter at the Ocean House, in Newport, used to furnish regular material for certain lady journalists by his hints of conversations overheard, reminiscences of family history, and even descriptions of dress.
In a more highly developed fashionable life in England, John appears in the form of some impoverished cousin of a countess, or
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 28 : the really interesting people (search)
Chapter 28: the really interesting people
A newly arrived English authoress, sitting beside an American author at the dinner-table a few years since, looked up and said to him with the cheerful frankness of her nation, Isn't it a pity, don't you think, that all the really interesting Americans are dead?
It was not, perhaps, a very encouraging inducement for a surviving American to make himself interesting; and probably the talk which followed became a series of obituaries.
As a matter of fact, it always seems as if the interesting people had just passed away, as in any town it always seems as if the really fine trees had lately died or had been cut down.
But, as Goethe remarked, the old trees must fall in order to give the younger growth a chance; and it would be wiser to say that the really interesting people are always those who survive.
The younger they are, indeed, the more interesting.
The older ones have been gauged and measured; they may yet, while they live, do som