Taking Them As A Whole, I Do Not Like Their Mode Of Life;
But I Feel Bound To Add That The Hotels Of Canada, Which Are Kept I
Think Always After The Same Fashion, Are Infinitely Worse Than Those
Of The United States.
I do not like the American hotels; but I must
say in their favor that they afford an immense amount of
accommodation.
The traveler is rarely told that a hotel is full, so
that traveling in America is without one of those great perils to
which it is subject in Europe.
CHAPTER XV.
LITERATURE.
In speaking of the literature of any country we are, I think, too
much inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively
to the writers of books - not acknowledging as we should do that the
literary character of a people will depend much more upon what it
reads than upon what it writes. If we can suppose any people to
have an intimate acquaintance with the best literary efforts of
other countries, we should hardly be correct in saying that such a
people had no literary history of their own because it had itself
produced nothing in literature. And, with reference to those
countries which have been most fertile in the production of good
books, I doubt whether their literary histories should not have more
to tell of those ages in which much has been read than of those in
which much has been written.
The United States have been by no means barren in the production of
literature.
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