...life of America to a higher and nobler plane. He began to answer Sydney Smith's cynical question " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? " and led the way in rescuing American literature from the sluggish and torpid stream in which it had...

...system.' P. 161. Maurice. — This is better than Sydney Smith's attitude expressed in the question, ' Who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? ' P. 162. Blackie. — ' Reading is seeing by proxy — is learning indirectly through another man's...

...literature the young country had not as yet made much progress. A clever British writer asked sneeringly, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Three Americans were beginning to write books that were worth reading. These were William Cullen...

...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce...

...be demanded from the class in return. In the Edinburgh Review for January, 1820, Sydney Smith wrote, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? " In the August number of the same periodical for that year, we read, "The courteous and ingenious...

...Review his famous series of questions concerning the culture of Jonathan as compared with that of John: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? . . . Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave,...

...once had the approbation of his fellow-countrymen when he delivered himself of that oft-quoted taunt: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play, or looks at an American picture or statue?" A CHECK TO LIBRARY ACTIVITY, as to COUntless other kinds of activity, including even the official forecast...

...two suns. — QUARLES 8. With him who knocks at the door of peace, seek not hostility. — SAADI 9. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue? — SIDNEY SMITH 10. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace....

...independence they have done absolutely nothing for the sciences, for the arts, for literature. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Sydney Smith's question "Who reads an American book?" has outlived all of his own clever Hudson River....

...independence they have done absolutely nothing for the sciences, for the arts, for literature. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Sydney Smith's question "Who reads an American book?" has outlived all of his own clever volumes. Even...