"He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston theyask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is heworth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when analien observer turns his telescope upon us--advertisedlyin our own special interest--a natural apprehensionmoves us to ask, What is the diameter of his reflector?I take a great interest in M. Bourget's chapters, for Iknow by the newspapers that there are several Americans whoare expecting to get a whole education out of them; severalwho foresaw, and also foretold, that our long night was over, and a light almost divine about to break upon the land.