قراءة كتاب English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters
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English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters
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 | |
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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 |