...travelers complained of "American materialism" and "vile cupidity." The Edinburgh Review asked in 1820, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" 9 Mrs. Frances Trollope wrote of America in 1832: "The immense exhalation of periodical trash, which...

...charges as those leveled by the Reverend Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review in 1820 when he asked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" And they agreed with Henry James's litany of American deficiencies: "no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor...

...author, made his infamous attack on American culture in the Edinburgh Review. "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?"44 Clearly, for many observers of the American scene before and after Tocqueville, New York...

...for confirmation that American artists and writers could refute the famous taunt of Sydney Smith: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Dunlap would later feature Cole in his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the...

...of the New World had induced a deterioration). In 1820, the English essayist Sydney Smith asked: "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" This delightful member of the clergy was, in fact, well disposed toward Americans, except for their...

...to haunt a substantial number of influential Americans for the remainder of the i 9th century: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" 3 Who, Smith was demanding, paid any attention to American culture at all? The question was quickly...

...to haunt a substantial number of influential Americans for the remainder of the 1 9th century: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?"3 Who, Smith was demanding, paid any attention to American culture at all? The question was...

...decades of American cultural dependence on Great Britain. Sydney Smith's famous taunt in 1820, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an 423 American play? or looks at an American picture . . . ?" evoked small response, for in truth even...

...Irving did to put America on the international literary map. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play, or looks at an American picture or statue?" — Washington Irving In 1820, the British writer Sydney Smith taunted Americans with this vicious...

...produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who read an American book? or goes to an American play? or...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...