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Excerpt from English Influence on the United States
Hese essays are on the subjects of addresses which I delivered during October and Novem ber, 1914, in Boston and Cambridge, Mass in Providence, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. They were primarily intended to show the close connection between English and American life; but they also emphasise the fact that from the first there have been divergences between English institutions, as they were maintained and developed in the Old Country, and the similar social elements as transplanted and moulded by the environment of a New World and the experience it afforded. I have drawn at times on architectural evidence, the importance of which does not seem to me to have been fully appreciated, either as regards the precise character or the long continuance of English in¿uence. As I had many opportunities of conversation with American friends on these topics, I feel able.
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