THE AMAZING AMERICAN

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43106, 18 June 1907, Page 4

THE AMAZING AMERICAN

“Ritai,” the novelist, who so severely attacked the London “smart set in a sensational series of articles, has some charmingly courteous things to say about Americans in her latest book, entitled significantly, “Personal Opinions Publicly Expressed.” Here are a few choice sentences from her chapter about “the amazing American”: . “I have an invincible prejudice against American manners.” “I have never been fortunate enough to meet an American gentleman or an American lady.” “To any idea of an Anglo-American entente li would say, “No, tthank you.’ The English and the American despite what has been said to the contrary, each in his secret heart dislikes! or despises the other.” “To business an American, brings little or no honorable feeling.” “Looked at dispassionately, the American is more an object for contempt than for admiration.” In other parts ** the book.. “Rita” mercilessly Scourges the vanities and weaknesses of her own sex, one, of her best aphorisms! on the subject being “The beauty of a woman may be only skin deep, but her vanity goes to the bone.”