ILLUSTRATIONS. Maharajkumar Victor Nityendra Narayan Frontispiece Facing page 63 Indu Bhushan De Majumdar The New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Some Members of the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, 1906 102 134 A scene of the Hindu Marriage Ceremonial in the Hindusthani Night 155 A group taken at the residence Mr. Holmes, Pinar del Rio A cottage for labourers in Mr. Luis Marx's plantation, Alquizar, Cuba House of a tobacco-grower who is a tenant 238 CHAPTER I. AMERICA AND AMERICANS. The United States-Epitome of the world-Land of marvels-Network of telephones and railroads―Lifts and automatic staircases-Multimillionaires-TrustsSlaughter-houses of Chicago-Live pigs in one end and sausages at the other—The Niagara Falls in fetters -Witches' cauldron-The American type-Materialism-Love of country-Hyperboles and superlative degree "Alexander the Great" tailor-The Bostonian -The Virginian. There is a country in the Western Hemisphere, overflowing with milk and honey, and most lavishly endowed with the choicest gifts of nature-from groves and geysers, peaks and prairies to falls and forests, caves and cañons;—a dreamland for the lover, the poet, and the philosopher;-an epitome of the world, and in fact a very paradise on earth;-a country where the human mind has made the greatest progress in the domain of practical science; |