Excerpt from Hail Columbia: Random Impressions of a Conservative English Radical That is not quite my state of mind as I lay these chapters before the American public. I quite realize that portions of my journeys have been purely geo graphic; that'i have not had all the contact I Should have needed with representative American families, for truly, representative families generally keep them selves rather to themselves. I know that my vision of the social life must be that of a guest entertained rather specially, with great profusion, with immense cordiality, and that this does not quite indicate the ordinary social life of the Americans. Especially, I realize that I have not lived inside the family, that I have not witnessed the quarrels at breakfast, the young man's moods of depression, nor heard him proclaim in the home circle his ambitions and ideals. I have not been on the inside, but I have been as near to it as I could, nearer, I hope, than most visiting Englishmen, because I wanted to. 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.