 | Richard Taylor Stevenson - 1905 - 546 pages
...novelist, and historian were very rare. It was in 1820 that Sidney Smith asked in pitying scorn: " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? " Looking back from the plateau of calm reflection or we need not wonder that the English critic... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 550 pages
...novelist, and historian were very rare. It was in 1820 that Sidney Smith asked in pitying scorn: " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ?" Looking back from the plateau of calm reflection we need not wonder that the English critic discovered... | |
 | 1905 - 468 pages
...and books. What a contrast. It is not so very long ago that Rev. Sydney Smith asked the question : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" Were he alive today, and mousing around any London book-store, he would hardly ask tnat question. Many... | |
 | 1901 - 438 pages
...life of America to a higher and nobler plane. He began to answer Sydner Smith's cynical question: " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? " and led the way in rescuing American literature from the sluggish and torpid stream in which it... | |
 | Howard Jason Rogers - 1906 - 764 pages
...amusing reading in the light of to-day: "Americans have done absolutely nothing for the sciences. ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons? What new substances have their chemists... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1908 - 732 pages
...American works abroad. As late as 1820 Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, made his famous exclamation, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" If, however, there was a publication abroad, importation without the consent of the owner was 208 U.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pages
...far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? Wliat does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pages
...far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1909 - 692 pages
...works abroad. As late as 1820 Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, made his famous exclamation, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" If, however, there was a publication abroad, importation without the consent of the owner was forbidden... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1910 - 428 pages
...preceding the birth of the Republican Party, when that great wit and great writer, Sydney Smith, asked, "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed... | |
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play : or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? 
