My Discovery of England

t of elation or boastfulness. I am simply stating it as a fact-interviewed twenty times, sixteen times by men and twice by women. But as I fee

he time being completely thrown off my bearings. The questions that I had every ri

. I lay no claim to exemption for that. But to that no doubt was due the singular

kfast described me as "a brisk, energetic man, still on

that my hair was turning grey, and that t

to two said, "The old gentleman sank wearily upon a

e never bother with that. We simply describe him as a "dynamo." For some reason or other it always pleases everybody to be calle

d. I had expected that the reporter would say: "As soon as Mr. Leacock came across the floor we felt we were in the presence of a 'dynamo' (or an 'extinct battle-horse' a

I am thinking here especially of the kind of interview that I have given out in Youngstown, Ohio, and Richmond, Indiana, and Peterborough, O

y have been burning to know this, just as the Youngstown, Ohio, people are, and were too proud to ask. In any case I will inser

t of a rich agricultural district with railroad connection in all directions, and resting

n used my name would have stood higher there than it does to-day-unless the London people are very different from the people in Youngstown, wh

d up by an easy and pleasant transition to question two, which a

I was taken out by a second group in what was apparently the same car to see your soap works. I understand that you are the second nail-making centre east of the Allegheni

s than the London method of asking questions about literature and art and difficult things of that sort. I am sure that there must be soap works and perhaps a pail factory somewhere in

all written an

est hop-consuming, the fourth hog-killing, an

eason, is the total omission of the familiar inte

sly jest together. Here again the sub-heading comes in so nicely: THINKS YOUNGSTOWN WOMEN CHARMING. And they are. They are, everywhere. But I hate to think that I had to keep my impressi

ns are too difficult. One asked me whether the American drama was structurally inferior to the French. I don't call that fair. I told him I didn't know;

nearly all of them, except one as to whether I thought Al Jolson or Frank Tinney was the higher

y, the atmosphere of these young men is not healthy

nd shown me a factory and told me how many cubic feet of water go down the Thames in an hour. I should have been glad of his society, and he and I would have together made up the kind

e large fund of information which I acquired, I reserv