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45717A Yankee answer by another question-- How many snow balls will heat an oven?
45717How many Militia and Volunteers, with such Generals as_ Hull_,_ Smyth_, et cetera, will conquer Canada? 45717 What shall we say of her conduct during the present war with the U.S.?"
45717Who then shall say, that Uncle Sam is not a prudent, calculating fellow-- and John Bull a fool and a spendthrift? 45717 Am I right?'' 45717 Do not the contractors have a certain per cent? 45717 Does not an absolute boycott point at least to a distaste? 45717 In 1853 Lowell wrote:''Do you think it will rain?''
45717Is it possible that in the matter of nicknames, we Americans have lost our inventive capacity?
45717Must it not be admitted that Uncle Sam is an exception to the rule?
45717Those who opposed the war invented"Chamberlain''s Innocent Victims,"while Tommy Atkins converted the initials into"Can I Venture?"
45717_ Query._ How much is the usual cost of a new waggon?
45717and that the explanation they gave is the true explanation?
45717another history of the war?
45717that those who first used the sobriquet did record its origin?
39950A good thing or a bad?
39950Have you seen that play by Maeterlinck?
39950That''s all right,they said, grinning at the cheering crowds,"and when do we eat?"
39950Was it good or bad that the Romans conquered Europe, or that afterward they fell before the barbarians? 39950 What''s up?"
39950Where are they?
39950Who can tell?
39950And where did you get that bit of fluff?"
39950Can you imagine Roosevelt in New York in this crisis?
39950Friday?
39950He is pleased to shake the finger- tips of a lady through the brass railings; while she is pleased to ask him,"How do you like my new hat?"
39950If we join a League of Nations, shall we prevent war?
39950In a House of a Thousand Windows I took the elevator to the top story and wished I had n''t when the girl in charge of the lift asked,"What floor?"
39950Is that true?
39950Or, if we join, shall we be absorbed and make the fight a bigger one?
39950Tuesday?
39950Was it good or bad that William and his Normans conquered England?
39950What could they know of art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought?...
39950Where are gratitude and justice?
39950Who pays me for the loss of my leg?"...
39950and one hears the laughing words of a girl who asks,"Do you mind if I powder my nose?"
39950or"Clam chowder?"
1864And a day less or more At sea or ashore, We die-- does it matter when?
1864Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
1864FARRAGUT AT MOBILE BAY Ha, old ship, do they thrill, The brave two hundred scars You got in the river wars?
1864GENERAL GRANT AND THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN What flag is this you carry Along the sea and shore?
1864GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST Have the elder races halted?
1864How would he and such men as he stand the great ordeal when it came?
1864I know St. George''s blood- red cross, Thou mistress of the seas, But what is she whose streaming bars Roll out before the breeze?
1864I write of one, While with dim eyes I think of three; Who weeps not others fair and brave as he?
1864If you ask, what if we do fail?
1864The brigadier answered,"Are you afraid to go, sir?"
1864To him who, deadly hurt, agen Flashed on afore the charge''s thunder, Tippin''with fire the bolt of men Thet rived the rebel line asunder?
1864Was it to destroy a great nation, and fetter human progress in the New World?
1864Was this barbarous force now to prevail in the United States in the nineteenth century?
1864With side to side, and spar to spar, Whose smoking decks are these?
41898Can a nation feel secure, having to put the keeping of its Spirit into the hands of aliens?
41898How can you study in such luxurious rooms?
41898How do you account for it?
41898How much wives you are?
41898Oh,he answered,"who but a childlike,_ naïve_ people would laugh over such a stupid joke as yours?
41898Uncle Sam was not wholly disinterested in Cuba, was he? 41898 What are we going to do now with the two or three minutes we saved?"
41898Who but an Oriental could invent such highly picturesque figures of speech?
41898Why should I want to go over again?
41898Why, how did you learn that?
41898Anyway, how did you dare bring such a silly story into so serious a conversation?"
41898As the clerk reached for the desired article she asked:"Short sleeves or long sleeves?"
41898As we returned to our hotel, the Frau Directorin amused herself by asking each child she met:"How much brothers and sisters you are?"
41898Can we assimilate all these varied elements which come to us?
41898Can we make of them one people, and eliminate all those ethnic, national and religious inheritances which are frequently at variance with our own?
41898Feeling sure that he would not understand, I shouted at him,"Are you a Greek?"
41898How and why should they understand when the Americans did not?
41898How old?"
41898Shall I say, God''s last experiment has failed?
41898The Frau Directorin asked:"How much wives you are?"
41898The Frau Directorin did not like it at all,"for what good is it to walk along the shopping streets if you ca n''t look into the shops?"
41898To see you eat your lobster and mince pie?"
41898We saved time, but for what purpose?
41898What is it all to be when blended?
41898When I told him that one of my students came to me one morning in haste, with"Say, Prof, where is Prexy?"
41898Where now is your boasted fairness?"
41898Why should he have to look at a hundred or more human heads variously"_ frisired_"?
41898Will he lead them from the exclusive club as once he led them into the inclusive home?
41898Will he now lead them from the breakers of Newport as well as once he led them from Plymouth Rock?
41898You put all these things side by side, and no one asks: Will they harmonize, or will they clash?
29952Hans Breitman gife a barty-- Vhere ish dot barty now?
29952Shall gravitation cease when you go by?
29952To which of these religions do you specially adhere?
29952What''s your business, stranger, in these parts?
29952But does romance disappear from the farm with machinery and scientific agriculture?
29952But how much of this humor, after all, is either essentially universal in its scope or else a matter of mere stage- setting and machinery?
29952But just what subtle racial differentiation had been at work, since William Hawthorne migrated to Massachusetts with Winthrop in 1630?
29952But precisely what national traits are to be discovered in this eminent fellow- countryman of ours?
29952Did the colonist need a tool?
29952Does not the_ Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_ itself presuppose the existence of a truly cultivated society?
29952Does this make Nathaniel Hawthorne merely an"Englishman with a difference,"as Mr. Kipling, born in India, is an"Englishman with a difference"?
29952Enjoying the thing liberty, have we been therefore less concerned with the idea?
29952Has our literature kept equal pace with our thinking and feeling?
29952He betrays it in this striking passage from his_ Journal_, about the sculptor Greenough:--"What interest has Greenough to make a good statue?
29952Is there, then, a distinctly American type of humor and satire?
29952National smugness and conceit, the impatience crystallized in the phrase,"What have we got to do with abroad?"
29952Next, what is right, just, lawful for my crowd?
29952Or is it simply another illustration of the defective passion of American literature?
29952Shall we enter the preoccupation plea once more?
29952The farm expands over the wolf''s den, the Indian becomes a blacksmith, but do the gross and material instincts ultimately triumph?
29952The first instinct, perhaps, is to ask what is right, just, lawful, for me?
29952The sole question is,"Are you on the Lord''s side?"
29952This vast series of kaleidoscopic changes which we call America; has it produced a humor of its own?
29952Toward what tangible symbols of the invisible did their eyes instinctively turn?
29952Was Hawthorne, then, simply an Englishman living in America?
29952Were not such heroes, impossible as they would have been in any other civilized country, perfectly illuminative of your national state of mind?"
29952What are the causes of American romance, the circumstances and qualities that have produced the romantic element in American life and character?
29952What is it which contradicts, inhibits, or negatives the romantic tendency?
29952What is the evidence?
29952What is the use of battling for one''s own opinions when one can already see that the multitude is on the other side?
29952When you meet a bore or a hypocrite or a plain rascal, is it better to chastise him with laughter or to flay him with shining fury?
29952Who cares whether it is good?
29952Why should New Jersey, for example, be more ridiculous than Delaware?
29952Why should the suburban dweller of every city be regarded with humorous condescension by the man who is compelled to sleep within the city limits?
29952Why?
29952Will an author choose to address the selected guests or the casual crowd?
29952Yet when one asks the great Russian,"What am I to do as a member of this fellowship?"
29952Yet who does not know that the inherent instinct for political order may be accompanied by mental disorderliness?
17648Rhode Island? 17648 What am I to do with you, Tommy?
17648*****"What am I who doth rail against the fate That binds mankind?
17648American parents are doubtless more familiar than others with the plaintive remonstrance:"Why did you not bring me up more strictly?
17648An American says,"Would n''t you_ like_ to do this for me?"
17648An Englishman says,"Would you_ mind_ doing so- and- so for me?"
17648And even if he does, do A, and B, and C?
17648And shall I ever forget the grotesque gravity of the negro brakeman in Louisiana, with his tall silk hat?
17648Are you nobody, too?
17648As we come over"Nob Hill"we take in the size of the houses of the Californian millionaires, note that they are of wood( on account of the earthquakes?
17648But, alas, who is quicker to resent our criticism than they of our own household?
17648Do not our very cooks the same as far as they can?
17648Have not our novelists and satirists reaped the most ample harvest from the pitiable spectacle and all its results?
17648I suppose that''s because he''s a Scotsman?
17648I thought he would n''t let you come?"
17648Is the world fouler for a gnat''s corpse?
17648Is there not a picturesque side to the triumph of civilisation over barbarism?
17648Is there not an element of the picturesque in the struggles of the Western farmer?
17648Nay, The ocean, is it shallower for the drop It leaves upon a blade of grass?"
17648One says to the other:"How did you manage your father?
17648Our genial satirist_ Punch_ hit the nail on the head:"Shall we-- eh-- reverse, Miss Lilian?"
17648Surely the American journalist has a fatal facility of repetition or--?
17648These poems are all short, and their titles( such as"What Shall It Profit?"
17648This may be so; but where else in the world will you find such a volume and expanse of free trade as in these same United States?
17648To which the Boston girl:"Well, whose trunk was it?"
17648We may feel ourselves, for example, the equal of a marquis, but does he?
17648What am I to do with you?"
17648What has American culture and civilisation to say to this mode of training youth?
17648What if I sin-- am lost-- do crack my life Against the gateless walls of Fate''s decree?
17648What right- minded man in any circle of British society has not shuddered at the open pursuit of young Croesus?
17648Which of our enlightened British companies is going to be the first to win the hearts of its patrons by the adoption of this neat and easy device?
17648Who are you?
17648Why did you give me so much of my own way?"
17648Why should she hypocritically subordinate her personal instincts to a general theory of taste?
17648Would you mind going out with my little girl while she makes some purchases?"
17648or the pair of gloves pathetically shared between two neatly dressed negro youths in a railway carriage in Georgia?
17648or the pickaninnies slumbering sweetly in old packing- cases in a hut at Jacksonville, while their father thrummed the soft guitar with friendly grin?
17648rather than"Of what kind?"
27250A man who takes a holiday at Trouville or Dieppe is not confronted on his return with the question,''When is your book on France going to appear?''
27250And if we did ask him to bring his wife, how many wives would he bring?
27250Are these the amiable and pacific relations which will unite England and America, when Englishmen can get to America in a day?
27250Are you an atheist?''
27250Assuming all the desperate composure of Slim Jim himself, I replied,''You mean you are connected with the police authorities here, do n''t you?
27250But because I know that Bilge is only Bilge, shall I stoop to the profanity of saying that fire is only fire?
27250But is my American critic really ready to treat the sacrifice of blood in the same way as the sacrifice of beer?
27250But perhaps a better answer would be that given to W. T. Stead when he circulated the rhetorical question,''Shall I slay my brother Boer?''
27250But right in what?
27250But the English are not always saying, either in romance or reality,''What''s to be done, if our food is being poisoned by all these baronets?''
27250But what are those rights?
27250But what did it write on Belshazzar''s wall?...
27250But what would be the good of imaginative logic to prove the madness of such people, when they themselves praise it for being mad?
27250Can it be possible that he brought it from Virginia, where the cigarettes come from?
27250Can we say in any special sense nowadays that clergymen, as such, make a poison out of the blood of the martyrs?
27250Can we say it in anything like the real sense, in which we do say that yellow journalists make a poison out of the blood of the soldiers?
27250I suppose most of your people are agricultural, are n''t they?''
27250If he was a lunatic who thought he was an astronomer, why did he have a badge to prove he was a detective?
27250If the police insist on his wearing clothes, will he recognise the authority of the police?
27250If there are no rights of men, what are the rights of nations?
27250If_ Martin Chuzzlewit_ makes America a lunatic asylum, what in the world does it make England?
27250In short, as in the American formula, is he a polygamist?
27250In short, as in the American formula, is he an anarchist?
27250Is Mr. Campbell content with a Prohibition which is another name for Privilege?
27250Is bloodshed to be as prolonged and protracted as Prohibition?
27250Is the Hairy Ainu content with hair, or does he wear any clothes?
27250Is the normal noncombatant to shed his gore as often as he misses his drink?
27250O, hidden face of man, whereover The years have woven a viewless veil, If thou wert verily man''s lover What did thy love or blood avail?
27250One of the questions on the paper was,''Are you an anarchist?''
27250Only, if war is the exception, why should Prohibition be the rule?
27250Shall I blaspheme crimson stars any more than crimson sunsets, or deny that those moons are golden any more than that this grass is green?
27250Take that innocent question,''Are you an anarchist?''
27250The inquisitor, in his more than morbid curiosity, had then written down,''Are you a polygamist?''
27250Then there was the question,''Are you in favour of subverting the government of the United States by force?''
27250To which a detached philosopher would naturally feel inclined to answer,''What the devil has that to do with you?
27250Was he a detective?
27250Was he a wandering lunatic?
27250Was he an astronomer?
27250What has become of all those ideal figures from the Wise Man of the Stoics to the democratic Deist of the eighteenth century?
27250Which has most to do with shekels to- day, the priests or the politicians?
27250Who and what was that man?
27250Why not wear his uniform, if he was resolved to show every stranger in the street his badge?
27250Why should the world take the chains off the black man when it was just putting them on the white?
27250Would etiquette require us to ask him to bring his wife?
27250_ Is the Atlantic Narrowing?_ A certain kind of question is asked very earnestly in our time.
27250or''Are you a philanthropist?''
27250which is intrinsically quite as impudent as''Are you an optimist?''
56484Are the workers here in any way members of the community?
56484Are you an Anarchist?
56484Are you an Anarchist?
56484But the old religion of Oneida?
56484How many hours a day may a child work in New York,I began to ask people,"and when may a boy leave school?"
56484Is n''t that possible?
56484May we not become a peculiar people-- like the Jews?
56484Resist what?
56484The Chinese?
56484Was it by any chance very, very black?
56484Was n''t he making trouble?
56484What are you going to make your future_ of_, for all your airs?
56484What do you mean?
56484What on earth,said I,"is that baby doing abroad at this time of night?"
56484What shall be those counter elements of civilization? 56484 What will the property- owners in Paterson say to us if this man is released?"
56484Who was he?
56484Whose head?
56484Why did he go there?
56484Will this enormous space of sunlit woodland and marsh and meadow really be filled at any time?
56484With all this,I asked him,"why does n''t the place_ think_?"
56484You do n''t think they''ll swamp you?
56484A hundred tons of water stuns one altogether, and what more do you want?
56484All depends upon the answer to this question: Is the average citizen fundamentally dishonest?
56484And at a cheaper rate?...
56484And of all the races upon earth, which has suffered such wrongs as this negro blood that is still imputed to him as a sin?
56484And then-- what use will it make of its prey?
56484Are n''t we driving ahead westward at a pace of four hundred and fifty miles a day?
56484Are you ashamed of your poor relations?
56484Are you bound to inform your customer of every defect?
56484Are you bound to spend more upon cleaning and packing them than he demands?--to wrap them in gold- foil gratuitously, for example?
56484But where will one find that class?
56484But will the uneducated whites endure even so submissive a vindication as that?
56484Do geographical positions or mineral resources make for riches?
56484Do you think it is generous?"
56484How are you going to answer these questions?
56484How far do they suffer under that plight of feminine education-- notetaking from lectures?...
56484How far, I wonder still, are these girls thinking and feeding mentally for themselves?
56484How shall it be prevented from becoming in obedience to a similar inexorable law, a curse?
56484How subtle, how collected and patient, how far capable of a long plan, is this American nation?
56484III Is Progress Inevitable?
56484Is an abundant prolific life at a low level indicated?
56484Is he a rascal and humbug in grain?
56484Is he fair?"
56484No national income- tax is legal, and there is practically no power, short of revolution, to alter that.... Could anything be more emphatic?
56484Or between themselves for the matter of that?
56484Or is he fundamentally honest, but a little confused ethically?...
56484Suppose you are, then are you bound to examine your goods minutely for defects?
56484Suppose you want to grow very rich and found a noble university, let us say?
56484The seller seeks to appreciate, the buyer to depreciate; and where is there room for truth in that contest?
56484Then can you decently join in the outcry against the Chicago butchers?
56484Then if you intrust that duty to an employee ought you to dismiss him for selling defective goods for you?
56484They have secret agents, false names, concealed bargains,--what else could one expect?
56484They have, no doubt, carried sharpness to the very edge of dishonesty, but what else was to be expected from the American conditions?
56484Well, do you expect me, now I''m here, to shut the door on any other poor chaps who want a start-- a start with hope in it, in the New World?"
56484What are you going to make your future_ of_, for all your airs, we want to know?
56484What can you do with a public opinion made of this class of ingredient?
56484What do they discuss one with another?
56484What elements of a future, as futures have gone in the great world, are at all assured to you?"
56484What is America saying to itself?
56484What is happening to those who have not got and who are not getting wealth, who are, in fact, falling back in the competition?
56484What is the form of that process as one finds it in America?
56484What made him so sure of this progressive magnificence of Boston''s growth?
56484What matters it?
56484What shall we have?
56484What will they be up to?"
56484Who can invent a rule to determine what expedients are permissible and what not?
56484Will they suffer the horrid spectacle of free and self- satisfied negroes in decent clothing on any terms without resentment?
56484_ What_ Princess?"
41862Do you make as many jokes here,asked a friend,"as you used to make in Baltimore?"
41862How many children have you?
41862What then is the American,he asks,"this new man?
41862And Walt Whitman, the"democratic bard,"the poet who broke all the poetic traditions?
41862And if that fails, what then?
41862And if that fails, what then?
41862And then, at night, around the camp- fire, they smoke their pipes with me, and the question is, Who can tell the best story?
41862And what are these masses of people who are capable of cheering in unison for three- quarters of an hour, or an hour and a quarter?
41862And what have we here in the way of political doctrine?
41862And what have we here in the way of social theory?
41862And what is this but self- reliance?
41862And whence did this particular impulse spring?
41862But equal in what?
41862But what about the amount of pleasure, of real joy, of inward satisfaction that a man gets out of life?
41862But what are its results from the educational point of view?
41862But what if he does not like the results on either side?
41862But what is that equality?
41862But what of the religious bodies which exist under this system?
41862But when I laughed and said what I really wanted was that he should show me the way, he replied,"Why did n''t ye say so?"
41862But where is any ideal perfectly realized except in heaven and in the writings of female novelists?
41862Do you ask for my credentials as an ambassador?
41862Followed ten years of acrimonious and violent controversy and eight years of war,--about what?
41862Have I overaccented the inconsistencies in this picture postal- card view of America?
41862Have I sharpened these contrasts and contradictions a little?
41862How clearly, how beautifully, how perfectly, does it give that interpretation in concrete works of art?
41862How did this enormous enterprise of higher education come into being?
41862How far may the State go in promoting the higher education?
41862How is it to be reconciled with the spirit of fair play?
41862How long did Rome exist before its literary activities began?
41862How long was it, for example, before the Hebrews began to create a literature?
41862How many children were benefited by it?
41862I recall also the charming naïveté with which an English lady inquired,"Have you any good writers in the States?"
41862If this is true, then, of the individual, how much more is it true of a nation, a people?
41862Is he a good companion; has he the power of leadership; can he do anything particularly well; is he a vigorous and friendly person?
41862Is it merely hoarded, or used for selfish and extravagant luxury?
41862Is it right to use the public funds, contributed by all the taxpayers, for the special advantage of those who have superior intellectual powers?
41862Is it succeeding?
41862Is it the culminating rite in the worship of the Almighty Dollar?
41862Is it the essential truth, the fundamental truth,_ la vraie verité_, that we discover through this glass?
41862Is it too soon to determine whether his revolution in literature was a success, whether he was a great initiator or only a great exception?
41862Is not this a kind of religion, and a very good kind?
41862Is this a merit or a fault in literature?
41862Now what have we here?
41862Suppose you followed one of these groups of children into the school, what would you find?
41862The Stamp Act?
41862The downfall of democracy?
41862The real question is, What kind of a fellow is the new man?
41862There are perhaps many of whom we might inquire, Which is who, and why is he somewhat?
41862This proves what?
41862What English novel gives a perfect picture of all England in the nineteenth century?
41862What are the qualities in which it really expresses the Spirit of America?
41862What are these scenes at which you have assisted?
41862What do these colleges and universities do for the intellectual life of the country?
41862What do they do?
41862What does it all prove?
41862What does this mean?
41862What if neither party seems to him clear or consistent or satisfactory?
41862What is it doing?
41862What is the nature of this attention?
41862What lines is it following?
41862What motives guide and control this big, good- natured crowd?
41862What personal qualities, what traits of human temperament and disposition does it reveal most characteristically in the spirit of the land?
41862What power could save them from their own bad judgment?
41862What reason or order is there in it?
41862What relation does it bear to the interpretation of nature and life in a certain country at a certain time?
41862What was that fact?
41862What wonder that the American people have been fascinated, perhaps even a little intoxicated, by the effect of their own will- power?
41862When I repeated this to an Englishman, he looked at me pityingly and said:"But how could you exaggerate a thing like that, my dear fellow?
41862Where are the changes most apparent?
41862Which is the most important?
41862Which of the French romances of the last twenty years expresses the whole spirit of France?
41862Who can make a general estimate in a matter which depends so much upon individual temperament?
41862Who can tell?
41862Who knows?
41862Who supports it?
41862Why did they not go to work at once, with their intense energy, to produce a national literature on demand?
41862Why has it been so slow to begin?
41862Why is it not more recognizably American?
41862Why?
41862Why?
41862Why?
41862_ In vino et in viatore veritas!_"But is it quite correct, after all, this first impression that travel is the great revealer of character?
41862said the Yankee,"ag''in?"
41862the Boston Port Bill?
41862the Paint, Paper, and Glass Act?
41862the Tax on Tea?