...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...

...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? AY hat does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? AVhat new substances have their...

...216.) It is in a review of this work in the Edinburgh Review (xzxiii. p. 79), that the question is asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book?" &c. 36' A FULL AND CORRECT AccoUNTof the Military Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain...

...overthrow of our manufactures. After which we find the Edinburgh Review thus discoursing about us : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play 1 or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet...

...the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says : " There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable...

...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable...

...Crubbes — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — their Wilkiea, Lawrences, or Chantreys? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play J or looks at an American statue or picture 1 What does the world yet...

...years ago, a series of articles designed to answer, in the most practical manner, Sydney Smith's taunt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" It was understood it the time that the writer had access to the most reliable sources for the figures...

...Sydney Smith, as late as January, 1820, asked, in the " Edinburgh," that'wellknown and stingmg question, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Even at -home, " Hesper " and " The Mount of Vision " soon faded out of sight. At that time, 1808...

...fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? Review of Seyberfs Annals of the United States ( 1820). Magnificent spectacle of human happiness....