America To-day, Observations and Reflections

The letters and essays which make up this volume appeared in the London Pall Mall Gazette and Pall Mall Magazine respectively. The Straits of New York When is a Ship not a Ship? Nationality of Passengers A Dream Realized. The Atlantic Ocean is geographically a misnomer socially and politically a dwindling superstition. That is the chief lesson one learns and one has barely time to take it in between Queenstown and Sandy Hook. Ocean forsooth! this little belt of blue water that we cross before we know where we are, at a single hop skip and-jump! From north to south perhaps it may still count as an ocean from east to west we have narrowed it into a strait.