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French & English : $b A comparison
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Success, National, at home, 390;
England greater in religion and politics, _ib._;
isolation of French conservatives, 391;
partial success of the Republic, _ib._;
English and French finances,
392;
contrast in party feeling, 393;
arts and sciences, _ib._;
manufactures, 394;
printing, 395;
painting, 396;
home success of French and English artists, 397;
literature, 399;
poetry, 401;
young philosophers, 403;
journalists, _ib._;
dread of war in England and France, 404
Success, Personal, difficult for a French gentleman, 375;
familiar to the middle classes, _ib._;
example of Madame Boucicaut, 376;
money-making, 377;
lotteries and private gambling, _ib._;
overcrowding professions, 378;
wealthy traders, 382;
English manufacturers, _ib._;
cost of living in France and England, 383;
definition of real success, _ib._;
little pleasures, 386;
industrial civilisation a failure, 388
Suffrage in England and France, xi
Sunday in Paris shocking to English and Scotch, 271;
in England before the Puritan revolution, 272;
Catholic observance for the protection of toilers, 273;
example of a French Sunday, _ib._;
in England and Scotland, 274;
distinction between sacred and profane music, 275;
rowing and sailing, _ib._;
effect of the Sabbatarian customs on literature, 276
Swinburne, his exceptional knowledge of technical workmanship in
French poetry, 24
Swimming, cultivated more in France than in England, 9;
exceptional cases of Miss Beckwith, Captain Webb, and
Vice-Chancellor Shadwell’s family, 10
T
Tea-drinking in England opposed to French ideas, 283
Temperance, drinking in France as distinct from drunkenness, 233;
possible allowance of a Frenchman, 234;
wine a safeguard against spirits, 235;
German wine drinking, 236;
difference in drinking habits in France, 237;
French abstainers between meals, 239;
gormandism, _ib._;
temperance of the _gourmet_, 241;
quotation from Thackeray, _ib._;
plain living in France, 242;
consumption of spirits in England, 243;
dipsomania, _ib._;
growing temperance in England, 244;
English love of flesh meat, 245;
French economy, _ib._;
English asceticism, 246
Tenderness. See Patriotic
Tennis, abandoned in France, 4;
the parent of English lawn tennis, _ib._
Tennyson known in France only to students in English literature, 408
Tennyson, his peerage, 323
Thackeray, a French _gourmet_, 241;
ideas of duelling expressed in the _Newcomes_, 278
Thackeray, little appreciated in France, 408
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