ay one rarely finds among Germans or Frenchmen.
It comes, perhaps, from the habit of local self-government.
If the streets are not well lighted, or if one's horse stumbles over an ill-kept pavement, the natural impulse is to complain of it to every one we meet, and to write about it in the local newspaper.
Instead of putting only our strong points forward, we are always ready to discuss our weakest side.
This must always be remembered in digesting the criticisms of Englishmen.
Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, have said nothing about Americans more unpleasant than they had previously said about their own countrymen; and why should we expect to fare any better?
It is only in foreign countries that even we Americans stand up resolutely for our own land.
I lived for some time with a returned fellow-countryman of very keen wit, who, after long residence in Europe, found nothing to please him at home.
One day, meeting one of his European companions, I was asked, How is ——? Does he
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Boyesen, H. H., 144, 171.
Bremer, Fredrika, 57.
Bridaine, Jacques, 215.
Brougham, Henry, 224.
Brown, Charles Brockden, 51.
Brown, John, 16, 155.
Brown, J. Brownlee, 104.
Browning, Robert, 25, 54, 55, 98, 196.
Bryant, W. C., 100, 147.
Bryce, James, 120, 167, 211.
Bulwer, see Lytton.
Buntline, Ned, 199, 200.
Burroughs, John, 114.
Burton, Robert, 114.
Byron, Lord, 178, 195, 217.
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Cable, G. W., 11, 67.
Cabot, J. E., 175.
Calderon, Serafin, 229, 232.
Carlyle, Thomas, 37, 56, 197, 206, 217.
Casanova, Jacques, 41.
Catullus, 99.
Cervantes, Miguel de, 229.
Champlain, Samuel de, 192.
Channing, E. T., 94
Channing, Walter, 214.
Channing, W. E., 46, 66, 155.
Channing, W. E. (of Concord), 103.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 179.
Cherbuliez, Victor, 79.
Chapelain, J., 91.
Chaplin, H. W., 76.
Chicago Anarchists, the, 68.
Choate, Rufus, 213.
Cicero, M. T., 4, 13,16, 171.
City life, limitations of, 80.
Claverhouse, Earl of, 47.
Clemens, S. H.,
ethel, Battle of, 347.
Bobbitt B. Boisseau, 339.
Bond Captain, W. R., 235.
Boteler, Hon. A. R., his house burned, 267.
Bradford, U. S. Navy Admiral, 333.
Breckinridge, General John C., 306.
Bright. Captain R. A., 228, 356.
Brooke, Colonel John M.,327.
Brunswick Guards, Company H, 53d Va., roll of, 120.
Buck, Captain Irving A., 162, 218.
Bullock, captain n J. D., 71.
Burton, W. L., 171.
Cabell, W. L., 68.
Canby, General E. R., 48.
Capers, General F. W. 3.
Carlyle, on whom to honor, 251.
Cary, Misses Hettie and Constance, 70.
Chaffin's Bluff Battalion, 141.
Chancellorsville Battle of 282.
Chambersburg Burning of, 261.
Charlestown, Imboden's dash into, 11.
Chickamauga, Battle of, 155, 360.
Chisholm, Alexander Robert, 32.
Christian, Hon. George L., 250, 340.
City Battalion, Richmond, 25th Infantry, officers of 303.
Cleburne, General P. R., sketch of, 151; death of 160; advocated enlistment of negroes 215.
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