Download or read book An English Student's Wander-Year in America (Classic Reprint) written by A. Georgette Bowden-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An English Student's Wander-Year in America Someone has said that no one has the right to judge the Chinese till he can write a Chinese love-letter; certainly no one has the right to criticize America till he has learnt to look at it through the eyes of American friends, and this, without any doubt, the student from England learns to do. The present writer pleads that she went to and returned from her American studies without the very smallest intention of spoiling clean paper with her personal impressions. A year's reflection, however, left her in a very different frame of mind. She was deeply sensible that the circumstances of her sojourn in the States prevented her range of observation being either so wide or so thorough as she could have desired; yet the impulse to clear and order her memories of things transatlantic, by committing them to writing, became almost too strong to be resisted. She has been actuated also by another motive. She was frequently struck during her Wander-Jahr by the intense interest shown by so many Americans in things English, and also, it must be allowed, by what appeared to her some considerable misconceptions of English life and English character. Certainly a great deal of the very trenchant criticism levelled at English manners and customs is most richly deserved, although, perhaps, one is hardly prepared to acquiesce when an American states that "an Englishman never says anything pleasant for fear it should choke him." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.