...into that extravagance of insularity. Sidney Smith gave an illustration of it when he wrote hi 1820, "Who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Well, at that very time, a noted English poet, Thomas Campbell, had read the poems of Philip Freneau...

...interesting to remember that it was just a century ago that Sydney Smith uttered his famous query: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play?" in blissful ignorance of the crowds that had thronged Drury Lane a year before to witness John Howard...

...honest we shall have to admit that when Sydney Smith propounded the best remembered of his queries, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " our forefathers would have been hard put to find a fair and favorable answer, because the books...

...JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY . 384 WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT 400 LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC PART n 1821-1834 In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? SYDNEY SMITH. AD 1820. The public expectation, which had been raised so high by the character of...

...the Christian Observer, London, in July, 1818, two years before Sidney Smith flippantly inquired, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The Observer, after a long extract from the closing sermon, which was one delivered at the opening...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on Seybert's Annals oj the United States. America has proved that it is...

...snow half depend, o. SHELLEY — Sonnet. To the Nile. In the four quarters of the globe, who jeiuls an American book? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? yi. SYDNEY SMITH Review on Sfyberfx Annals of the United States. llule Britannia, Britannia rules...

...is just sixty years since Sidney Smith, castigating our national habit of self-adulation, asked: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? . . . Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his...