Excerpt from The Americans at Home, Vol. 1 of 2: Pen-and-Ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and Institutions The old popular notion of an American was that of a man who wore nankeen trousers, carried a bowie-knife, sat with his feet on a mantelpiece, and squirted tobacco-juice on the carpet. There may be some people still possessed with this idea of Cousin Jonathan, just as there are probably some Cockneys who still imagine that Scotchmen wear kilts, live on porridge and whisky, and occupy spare time in scratching themselves on posts humanely erected for that purpose by His Grace the Duke of Argyll. But as a rule we have got past that stage, and the last decade has probably taught the British public more about the Americans and their country than the fifty years preceding. The war has been a great schoolmaster to every class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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