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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 236: July, 1922-October, 1922 Something not themselves seems to compel the people of the United States to take an interest in the affairs of Europe which far exceeds the interest that Europeans take in American affairs. Americans visiting England complain that there is no American news in English papers, and infer from its absence that British opinion is not educated to the point of taking seriously the movements of the American world, or studying its politics and personalities as intelligent Europeans do those of the neighbouring countries in Europe. Yet America cannot or does not make the retort of cultivating a similar aloofness from Europe. American newspapers abound in information about U Europe and devote an immense amount of study and criticism to its affairs. There 13 no getting away from the fact that, though the American may live in America, his spiritual and historical home 13 Europe, that the standards of comparison which he adopts for himself and his institutions, even for his manners and fashions and ways of life, are still European, and that his instincts compel him to look eastward as no European is compelled to look. 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.