Two Sides of the Atlantic: Notes of an Anglo-American Newspaperman (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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IT is hardly an exaggeration to say that most Britons think of an American as in some way or other a man who, whatever else he may, or may not be, is always a journalist. The psychology of this particular idol of the mind is one that entirely beats us, we must confess; and be it that ninety per cent. Of Americans who go abroad, whether for business, or simply for a va-cation, invariably manage to persuade editors known to them to print accounts of their wanderings and experiences, or that they really possess a more highly specialized nose for news, we find ourselves unable to decide at the moment. Benjamin Frank lin, it will be remembered, more than once declared that a besetting sin Of his countrymen was curiosity, and perhaps it is a consciousness of this trait in his fellows that makes your American of all classes so anxious to see himself in type; While the same principle would of course make Americans omnivorous newspaper-readers - Which they un doubtedly are.

It is a very well established fact, however, and every Briton who has resided in the States or in Canada will attest it, that the youth of America.

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