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Show oo A RETURNED AMERICAN'S , IMPRESSION. An Englishman returning to London Lon-don after so long a porlod, fioin a sojourn In Montreal, New York or Seattle; a Frenchmnn coming back to Paris, after the same length of time passed In Canada or tho United States, would not have found the familiar fa-miliar aspects of his home esentlafly altered. There is still In London "the same old crush at the corner of Fcnchurch street" as when Matthew Arnold wrote his "Essays In Criticism Criti-cism " And the boulevards are still tho axis around whose polished surface sur-face Dplns the bright Parisian world. The English ancestral domains and the French royal parks are still, In spite of Lord George and of the French Radicals, inhabited and frequented fre-quented by men and women who arc thinking and feeling in the same British Brit-ish or Gallic fashion In which they folt and thought a quarter of a century cen-tury ago. In the United States, on the contrary, so numerous have been tho changes within the period reaching reach-ing from 1890 to 1910 that they have comulatlvely resulted in differentiating differentiat-ing the American of toda- from the American of the earlier dato by a real and Impressive alternation in quality and the kind. Not merely tho surfaces of things have changed the mental and moral traits of the American people have soemed to alter. al-ter. Let me hasten to add that this latter change appears to mo to be an Illusion. Tho American of today who was "In being" In the America of twenty years ago Is only developing, with astonishing rapidity and In an unexpected variety of ways, the traditional tra-ditional American characteristics. But when the foreigner, fresh come to the new world, or the exile who returns to It after a long lapse of time, is suddenly confronted with the bewildering bewild-ering bulk of those transformations, both superficial nnd moral, he is bound to contemplate the spectacle with wonder. William Morton Ful-lerton Ful-lerton In Scrlbnor's, |