: Last winter in the United States by Zincke F Barham Foster Barham -

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The Winter Voyage recommended--A Cabin to oneself may then be had at no additional cost--Advantages of Travelling in America in Winter--A Feeling in a Gale--The Americans on board the Steamer--Divine Service on Board 1

Why an unreasonable Fancy was acted on--The History of the Cause of American Progressiveness--What passes in America important to us--The Northern States sown broadcast with Houses 24

The Locomotive in the Streets--In Baltimore Public Opinion first becomes Southern--Growth and Prospects of Baltimore--On Trading Politicians and Ill-will to England--Why an American Tutor thought necessary for an Englishman--Repudiation--The Masses and Middle Class in favour of it--Arguments in favour of it--An Argument used 2,000 Miles from Wall Street--Why Republicans bound to repudiate--Americans addicted to Abstract Reasoning--Instances 32

Washington--Style of Speaking in Congress--Congress no Nursery for Statesmen--Society in Washington--Episcopal Church in Washington--Some Opinions of an American Bishop--Commissioner of Agriculture--Use of the Department--Its Museum gives an Idea of the Vastness of the Country--Its Natural Advantages--What Variety of Productions has done for England will be repeated in America--Special Excellence of Californian Productions--The Californian himself--California compared with Italy--Why Coloured Waiters preferable to White--Negro Funeral with Masonic Honours--American Birds' Nests--Bill for making Education compulsory--Coloured Schools--Comparative Intelligence of the Negro--Vulgar Errors about Americans--Night Attendants at Hotel read 'Oliver Twist'--Capitol--Treasury--Patent Office--What our Diplomacy in America should be--Use of Iced Water 44

Richmond--Way by the Battle-fields--Handiness of American Soldiers--Effect of Slavery on the Virginian Landscape--Appearance of American Forest--Republican Relations of Father and Son--State of Feeling in Virginia--Billiards in America--Why Richmond Millers undersold by Californian--Why American Cities are Large--American Living--Prospects of Richmond--Indications of Southern Climate in Richmond--Church-matters in Richmond--Interest that attaches to Richmond, and to the Heroism of the South 67

How Southerners describe their own Condition--Each State must be taken separately--Missouri--Tennessee--Kentucky--Texas--Virginia-- Georgia--Florida--North Carolina--Arkansas--South Carolina--Louisiana--Mississippi--Will the Blacks get the Franchise?--No party considers them fit--They will have it for a time--This will weaken the repudiating party--Also the party hostile to this country--The Blacks will not all be republican--The South should have been left alone to settle the Labour Question--The Bureau suggested false ideas--There will be no war of races--What will kill out the Blacks--The rate of this--Fusion physically impossible--Means of Communication in the South indicate its condition 91

First Sight of a Cotton-field--Spanish Moss--A Night on the Rails--Many kinds of sameness in America--Maize--Order of Succession in the Forest--Its extent--Evergreens in the Southern Forest--Poor land in the South may be more profitable than rich land in the West--Deadness of Charleston--Its Hotels--A Charleston Sam Weller--The Naples of the United States--Few English Travellers--Sufferings of Southern Families--Want of schools--How the deficiency is being supplied--Blacks should be put on same footing as Whites--Dialogue with Black Member of Convention--Another Convention--Able Black Member--South Carolina Orphan Asylum 109

Cold in South Carolina and Georgia--Curious appearance of Ice--Time not valued in the South--Why Americans will not cultivate the Olive--Tea might grow in Georgia--Atlanta bound to be great--Cattle badly off in winter--A Virginian's Recollection of the War--His Position and Prospects--Approach to Mobile by the Alabama River--Mobile--The Harbour--Why no American Ships there--A Day on the Gulf--Ponchatrain--New Orleans--French Sunday Market--French appearance of Town--A New Orleans Gentleman on the Episcopal Church--Bishop Elect of Georgia--Mississippi--The Cemeteries--Expensiveness of everything--Transatlantic News--Fusion of North and South--French Half-breeds--Roads--The best in the World--Approach to New Orleans by land--Sugar Plantations--A Prayer for a Brother Minister 126

My only Delay on an American Railway--No concealing one's Nationality--Railway Cow-plough--Pistols--Memphis--Emigration from the South deprecated--True Method of Resuscitation--The Minister's Study--Conversation with two Ministers--Invitation to 'go to Church' 150 Miles off--Luxury does not sap the Military Spirit--Mrs. Read--Entry into Eden--Share a Bed-room with a Californian--How California was civilised--How a Site upon the Swamp was created for Cairo--Decline the fourth part of a Bed-room at Odin--'Be good to yourself' 146

Mississippi frozen over at St. Louis--Why the Bridge at St. Louis is built by Chicago Men--General Sherman--Ideas about Education at St. Louis--Liberal Bequests for Educational Purposes--How New Englandism leavens the whole Lump--The German Invasion will not Germanise America--St. Louis--Its rapid Growth--Its Church Architecture--An Idea on Mental Culture from the West Bank of the Mississippi--A Thought suggested by hearing the Skaters on the Mississippi talking English 164

Instance of American Kindliness--Red-skins and Half-breeds on the Rails--Cincinnati and its Inhabitants--What may be made of Pigs--The influence of its Pork-crop--Machinery for Killing and Curing--Improving effect American Equality has on the highest and lowest Class--Churches only unprosaic Buildings in American Towns--Schools--Merits of Philadelphian style of City-building not obvious--In what it consists--America has but one City--No. 24, G Street, corner of 25th Street 172

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