...the Christian Observer, London, in July, 1818, two years before Sidney Smith flippantly inquired, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The Observer, after a long extract from the closing sermon, which was one delivered at the opening...

...is just sixty years since Sidney Smith, castigating our national habit of self-adulation, asked: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? . . . Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his...

...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 ? " Twenty years, from the time when these words were written, sufficed to bring forward Emerson, Channing,...

...have spread themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the labt thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions,...race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads ¡in American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What docs...

...evident in all departments. In the ' ' Edinburgh Review " of 1 820, Sydney Smith asked the question : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? ' ' America smarted under the question which she could not answer, for at that day there was no book...

...Americans " have done absolutely nothing for the sciences,, for art, for literature." He went on to ask, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " His question was answered that same year by the publication in London of Irving's Rip Van Winkle...

...have spread themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions,...of the globe who reads an American book? or goes to see an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American...

...done "absolutely nothing for the sciences, for art, for literature," and added the scornful query, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " -'-'.'--'/ revolutions, like armies on the march, advance with Pioneers in front . , . Such was...

...themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or...from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. I/ In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks...

...the University of Pennsylvania, assumed the editorial chair, and, stung by Sydney Smith's gibe — " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? what does the world yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" — he adopted it as the motto...