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Ford Madox Ford. New York is Not America: Being a Mirror to the States
New York is Not America: Being a Mirror to the States
Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S ADVERTISEMENT
To JEANNE M. FOSTER
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
L’ENVOI
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Ford Madox Ford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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So I presume I must revise my estimate of the place of Germany amongst the nations.
Of course one can palliate the apparent brutality of the Oxford dons in Magdalen Hall by explaining that that is only a traditional game and that Oxford dons, being cultivated gentlemen, do not normally eat while their womenfolk fast; it is a platonic proceeding much as at Yuletide you may see elderly gentlemen of blameless behavior forcibly embrace young virgins under the mistletoe, and no doubt some similar palliation may be found for the behavior of the German professors that I used to find so disagreeable.
