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Excerpt from America at Home I have not discussed the American temperament as demonstrated in present-day literature and art, for the reason that all literary efforts in the United States now seem to me to tend to inculcate the obvious without a hint of the subjective grasp of life which is the only touch to make a work vital and lasting, and because there is as yet no national school of American art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.