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the United States I recognized that the general account which I had hazarded of them was, indeed, not erroneous, but that it required to have something added to supplement it. I should not like either my friends in America or my countrymen here at home to think that my “Word about America” gave my full and final thoughts respecting the people of the United States.
The new and modifying impressions brought by experience I shall communicate, as I did my original expectations, with all good faith, and as simply and plainly as possible.
Perhaps when I have yet again visited America, have seen the great West, and have had a second reading of M. de Tocqueville's classical work on Democracy, my mind may be enlarged and my present impressions still further modified by new ideas.
If so, I promise to make my confession duly; not indeed to make it, even then, in a book about America, but to make it in a brief “Last word” on that great subject — a word, like its predecessors, of openhearted and free conversation with the readers of this review.
I suppose I am not by nature disposed to think so much as most people do of “institutions.”
The Americans think and talk very
Boston. De Wolfe, Fiske &c Co. 361 and 365 Washington Street. 1888.
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