Yankee Criticisms of Max O'Rell's Book.
A Njew York despatch to the Paris edition of the 'New York Herald' says :— ' Max O'Reil's silly book on America, published in the syndicate of Sunday papers, was received with guffaws. The general impression about it is that he got his points on American institutions from some merry guyers, who played on his credulifcv. Chauncy Depew says O'Rell received his notions of Cis ttlantic morals at the Lotus Club, and is evidently a victim of the chaft for which that coterie is famous. Depew attributes some of o'R.eH's exaggerations to his chagrin at the failure of theliteiary and social worlds to take the Frenchman "as seriously as they took Matthew Arnold and Canon Kingsley. Jennie June is particularly severe in condemnation of the chapter in which O'Rell drivels on the subject of fche American girl, and thinks he ought to have his nose pulled for the ridiculous tale of the English lord who was entrapped by a young girl, of a fashionable family, into a private apartment, was made tipsy, kept there all night, and married by force in the morning.'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 360, 17 April 1889, Page 3
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187Yankee Criticisms of Max O'Rell's Book. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 360, 17 April 1889, Page 3
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