...independence they have done absolutely nothing for the sciences, for the arts, for literature. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Sydney Smith's question "Who reads an American book?" has outlived all of his own clever volumes. Even...

...the Arts, for Literature, or even for statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. . . In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...

...and art after nearly a half century of independence: "In the four quarters of the globe," he asked, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...

...works, 1848-1850. Most of Irving's writings were published simultaneously in America and England. 1 " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American play ? or looks at an American picture 01 American influences. His parents were natives of Great Britain; he owed most of his culture to prolonged...

...and art after nearly a half century of independence: "In the four quarters of the globe," he asked, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...

...and spared his American readers nothing when he wrote a paragraph that was to become memorable: In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered: or...

...writing in 1820 for the Edinburgh Review stated it bluntly: "In the four corners of the globe," he wrote, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" This comment produced "paroxysms of wrath" in the American press, but to a certain extent this feeling...

...United States of America, by the physician Adam Seybert, MD, acidly noted in the Edinburgh Review, 'In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons?'50 Dr Nathaniel Chapman, of Philadelphia, then launching...

...It was still possible for ^ the British critic Sydney Smith to sneer in 182.0: "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" And as M5 ft I late as 1858, Nathaniel Hawthorne, struggling with a European romantic conception of...

...that Nothing stung the American writers and artists of the time as much as the question. . . ." In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? Or looks at an American picture or statue?"3 Kohn adds that this question preoccupied educated Americans for decades. They were stung...