ABSTRACT
A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon John Bull's intimates. He may be amused by a foreigner as by a monkey, but he will never condescend to study him with any patience. It is so, perhaps, in all countries; perhaps in all. men are most ignorant of the foreigners at home. John Bull is ignorant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; but considering his opportunities, he is far more ignorant of countries nearer his own door. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign travel and strange lands and manners as on his first excursion into England. But it is not alone in scenery and architecture that we count England foreign.
