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English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters

English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters

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ENGLISH PHARISEES
FRENCH CROCODILES

AND

OTHER ANGLO-FRENCH TYPICAL CHARACTERS

BY

MAX O'RELL

AUTHOR OF "A FRENCHMAN IN AMERICA," "JONATHAN AND HIS
CONTINENT," "JOHN BULL, JUNIOR," "JACQUES BONHOMME,"
"JOHN BULL AND HIS ISLAND," ETC.

NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 Fourth Avenue


Copyright, 1892, by
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.

All rights reserved.

THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.

To Jonathan.

You have been kind enough to receive favorably two volumes of unpretentious impressions of your great and most hospitable country, published in 1889 and 1891.

You are a dear friend and a delightful fellow. You are on the road that will safely lead you to the discovery of everything that can insure the prosperity of the land of which you are so justly proud.

Yet the Old World can teach you something; not how to work, but how to live.

I have drawn a few sketches for you. Perhaps they will show you that people can be happy without rolling in wealth, or living in a furnace.

Take up this little book and, lighting a cigar, lie down quietly on the grass and read it under the shade of a tree.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER   PAGE
I. Foreigners 1
II. John Bull up to Date 9
III. Jacques Bonhomme, the Landed Peasant-Proprietor of France 17
IV. Jacqueline, the Fortune of France 27
V. Joseph Prudhomme, the Jog-Trot Middle-Class Frenchman 33
VI. Entertaining Neighbors 47
VII. French Impulsiveness and British Sangfroid Illustrated by Two Reminiscences 53
VIII. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles 57
IX. French and English Social Failures 69
X. High-Life Anglo-French Gibberish as Used in France and England 79
XI. Humor, Wit, and Hibernianism 87
XII. The Mal de Mer 95
XIII. British Philosophy and French Sensitiveness 107
XIV. The French Snob 123
XV. A Success as an Anglophobist. (The Late Marquis de Boissy) 127
XVI. Woman Worship 131
XVII. Faith and Reason 139
XVIII. The Worship of the Golden Calf 153
XIX. Why the French were Beaten in 1870 173
XX. England Works for Herself. The World Owes Her Nothing 177
XXI. The Spirit of Destruction and the Spirit Of Conservatism 183

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