...and art after nearly a half century of independence: "In the four quarters of the globe," he asked, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...

...and spared his American readers nothing when he wrote a paragraph that was to become memorable: In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered: or...

...writing in 1820 for the Edinburgh Review stated it bluntly: "In the four corners of the globe," he wrote, "who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" This comment produced "paroxysms of wrath" in the American press, but to a certain extent this feeling...

...United States of America, by the physician Adam Seybert, MD, acidly noted in the Edinburgh Review, 'In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons?'50 Dr Nathaniel Chapman, of Philadelphia, then launching...

...It was still possible for ^ the British critic Sydney Smith to sneer in 182.0: "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes...play? or looks at an American picture or statue?" And as M5 ft I late as 1858, Nathaniel Hawthorne, struggling with a European romantic conception of...

...that Nothing stung the American writers and artists of the time as much as the question. . . ." In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? Or looks at an American picture or statue?"3 Kohn adds that this question preoccupied educated Americans for decades. They were stung...

...doing statistical annals. Cooper takes her question from the following excerpt of Smith's review: "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? Whar does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists...

...project. They did so in responding to the English clergyman and writer Sydney Smith's famous taunt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play?" Because British imports and French and German translations were the most popular plays of the period,...

...Smith wrote his most memorable passage on American pretensions to artistic and intellectual culture: In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or...

...Arts, for Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy ... In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? ... When these questions are fairly and favourably answered, their laudatory epithets may be allowed:...