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American Adventures, by Julian Street
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Title: American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
Author: Julian Street
Illustrator: Wallace Morgan
Release Date: May 3, 2006 [EBook #18304]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Charleston is the last stronghold of a unified American upper class; the last remaining American city in which Madeira and Port and noblesse oblige are fully and widely understood, and are employed according to the best traditions]
AMERICAN ADVENTURES
A SECOND TRIP "ABROAD AT HOME" BY
JULIAN STREET
WITH PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS BY WALLACE MORGAN
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1917
Copyright, 1917, by THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1916, 1917, by P.F. COLLIER & SON, INC.
Published, November, 1917
TO MY AUNT AND SECOND MOTHER
JULIA ROSS LOW
FOREWORD
Though much has been written of the South, it seems to me that this part of our country is less understood than any other part. Certainly the South, itself, feels that this is true. Its relationship to the North makes me think of nothing so