ISBN: 1235819108

[EAN: 9781235819100], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], JOHN FOX TURNER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 20 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.0in.This historic bo… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781235819100], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], JOHN FOX TURNER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 20 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . . . THERE AND BACK; OR, THREE WEEKS IN AMERICA. Cbapter first. Come my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the paths Of all the western stars. --Tennyson. E adopt the title of There and Back because we do not desire to enact in this scripture the role of an emigration agent, or to preach discontent with the old country or her institutions. Many longing eyes are turned to America. We would like to address ourselves for once to people who are not longing--rather the reverse; who in their plans for a holiday leave the United States quite out of their calculations--who want to go with the ruck to southern France, or Italy, or Egypt, where people in society go;--so that when they return they may talk of those places as people in society do, and so get a sort of veneer from that famous repertoire. Alongside the Riviera, the United States for the funded middle-class Briton has too much of a middle-class aspect; besides the people speak English, B which, when Dives is on his travels and wants the young people to air their French, is a nuisance. You can hear Henglish hany day, says Dives, as he wades up to his armpits in hs. There is no fashion in touring away across the Atlantic. The jaseys of the dowagers get disarranged on shipboard; the salt air licks the burnt sienna off the whiskers of the veteran swell, who cannot open his mouth to tell club-window stories lest his teeth should be blown down his throat. Besides, there is a tradition amongst what is called the upper middle class that the privacy which they desiderate ( and for which, my dear sir, I am prepared to pay) cannot be insured at the American hotels. Mrs. Broomstick would. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 1235819108

[EAN: 9781235819100], Neubuch, JOHN FOX TURNER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781235819100], Neubuch, JOHN FOX TURNER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . . . THERE AND BACK; OR, THREE WEEKS IN AMERICA. Cbapter first. Come my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the paths Of all the western stars. --Tennyson. E adopt the title of There and Back because we do not desire to enact in this scripture the role of an emigration agent, or to preach discontent with the old country or her institutions. Many longing eyes are turned to America. We would like to address ourselves for once to people who are not longing--rather the reverse; who in their plans for a holiday leave the United States quite out of their calculations--who want to go with the ruck to southern France, or Italy, or Egypt, where people in society go;--so that when they return they may talk of those places as people in society do, and so get a sort of veneer from that famous repertoire. Alongside the Riviera, the United States for the funded middle-class Briton has too much of a middle-class aspect; besides the people speak English, B which, when Dives is on his travels and wants the young people to air their French, is a nuisance. You can hear Henglish hany day, says Dives, as he wades up to his armpits in hs. There is no fashion in touring away across the Atlantic. The jaseys of the dowagers get disarranged on shipboard; the salt air licks the burnt sienna off the whiskers of the veteran swell, who cannot open his mouth to tell club-window stories lest his teeth should be blown down his throat. Besides, there is a tradition amongst what is called the upper middle class that the privacy which they desiderate ( and for which, my dear sir, I am prepared to pay) cannot be insured at the American hotels. Mrs. Broomstick would. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<