Farthest West: Life and Travel in the United States. With Thirty-Two Illustrations and a Map.

London: John Long, Limited, MCMX. (1910). First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge gilt, uncut, xvi, 332 pp., folding map. Very Good+. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From Preface: It is the purpose of this book to present a survey of life in the United States, considered in the light of present social evolution. The pictures drawn are not hasty generalizations, but the result of some years’ travel and residence in the country, tempered by much thought about the American people and sympathy with their development. (truncated) The study of Democracy, its virtues and defects, is much before the world at the present time; and America is working out problems whose teaching are of great value to Britain. In which country shall first germinate the spirit of true “Imperialism”which, we trust, is to be born out of this commercial age? Which community will first form that great “Imperial Commonwealth,” which by the organization of its natural resources for the benefit of its people will establish its civilization on an enduring basis? Will it be Britain or America? In old Europe we are constantly looking towards the Americans to mark how their civilization unfolds, always expecting that in a New World, untrammelled by the traditions of the old, they will have taken a step forward in the betterment of society. We are still hoping; but doubtless the real fact is that the old and the new worlds are indispensable to each other, and that their civilizations must advance cojointly. At present the Americans are on the full tide of their material prosperity, such as precedes a more humane civilization. Chapter Headings: A Preliminary Glance; Topographical: East and South; Topographical: South and West; American Travel; American Scenery; The American Cities; City Life in America; American Types and Traits; The American People; Tariffs, Tyranny, Officialdom; Trusts and “Kings”; The War of Steel; The Workers and the Strikers; The Sins of Democracy; The American Peril; The American Cain; American Newspapers, Humour and Pies; America and Britain; Britain and America. (Inventory #: vita5977)