Europe's Undervaluation of America's Fighting Power--The Americans as Sailors--The Nation's Greatest Asset--Self-reliance of the People--The Making of a Doctor--And of a Surveyor-- Society in the Rough--New York and the Country--An Anglo-Saxon Trait--America's Unpreparedness--American Consuls and Diplomats-- A Homogeneous People--The Value of a Common Speech--America more Anglo-Saxon than Britain--Mr. Wells and the Future in America. CHAPTER IV MUTUAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS 94 America's Bigness--A New Atlantis--The Effect of Expansion on a People--A Family Estranged--Parsnips--An American Woman in England--An Englishman in America--International Caricatures-- Shibboleths: dropped H's and a "twang"--Matthew Arnold's Clothes--The Honourable S---- B----. CHAPTER V THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN 111 The Isolation of the United States--American Ignorance of the World--Sensitiveness to Criticism--Exaggeration of their Own Virtues--The Myth of American Chivalrousness--Whence it Originated--The Climatic Myth--International Marriages--English Manners and American--The View of Womanhood in Youth-- Co-education of the Sexes--Conjugal Morality--The Artistic Sense in American Women--Two Stenographers--An Incident of Camp-Life--"Molly-be-damned"--A Nice Way of Travelling--How do they do it?--Women in Public Life--The Conditions which Co-operate--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit again. CHAPTER VI ENGLISH HUMOUR AND AMERICAN ART 145 American Insularity--A Conkling Story--English Humour and American Critics--American Literature and English Critics--The American Novel in England--And American Art--Wanted, an American Exhibition--The Revolution in the American Point of View--"Raining in London"--Domestic and Imported Goods. CHAPTER VII ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EDUCATION 166 The Rhodes Scholarships--"Pullulating Colleges"--Are American Colleges Superior to Oxford or Cambridge?--Other Educational Forces--The Postal Laws--Ten-cent Magazines and Cheap Books-- Pigs in Chicago--The Press of England and America Compared-- Mixed Society--Educated Women--Generals as Booksellers--And as Farmhands--The Value of War to a People. CHAPTER VIII A COMPARISON IN CULTURE 191 The Advantage of Youth--Japanese Eclecticism and American--The Craving for the Best--_Cyrano de Bergerac_--Verestschagin-- Culture by Paroxysms--Mr. Gladstone and the Japanese--Anglo-Saxon Crichtons--Americans as Linguists--England's Past and America's Future--Americanisms in Speech--Why They are Disappearing in America--And Appearing in England--The Press and the Copyright Laws--A Look into the Future.