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      Through The Eye Of The Needle

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       Through The Eye Of The Needle, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657826

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

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      CONTENTS:

       INTRODUCTION.. 1

       PART FIRST. 6

       I 6

       II 7

       III 9

       IV.. 11

       V.. 13

       VI 15

       VII 18

       VIII 21

       IX.. 24

       X.. 27

       XI 30

       XII 32

       XIII 34

       XIV.. 36

       XV.. 38

       XVI 43

       XVII 45

       XVIII 48

       XIX.. 51

       XX.. 54

       XXI 57

       XXII 59

       XXIII 61

       XXIV.. 64

       XXV.. 66

       XXVI 67

       XXVII 71

       PART SECOND... 74

       I 74

       II 77

       III 81

       IV.. 88

       V.. 91

       VI 95

       VII 98

       VIII 101

       IX.. 105

       X.. 112

       XI 115

       XII 119

       XIII 122

       XIV.. 125

       XV.. 128

      INTRODUCTION

      Aristides Homos, an Emissary of the Altrurian Commonwealth, visited the United States during the summer of 1893 and the fall and winter following. For some weeks or months he was the guest of a well-known man of letters at a hotel in one of our mountain resorts; in the early autumn he spent several days at the great Columbian Exhibition in Chicago; and later he came to New York, where he remained until he sailed, rather suddenly, for Altruria, taking the circuitous route by which he came. He seems to have written pretty constantly throughout his sojourn with us to an intimate friend in his own country, giving freely his impressions of our civilization. His letters from New York appear to have been especially full, and, in offering the present synopsis of these to the American reader, it will not be impertinent to note certain peculiarities of the Altrurian attitude which the temperament of the writer has somewhat modified. He is entangled in his social sophistries regarding all the competitive civilizations; he cannot apparently do full justice to the superior heroism of charity and self-sacrifice as practised in countries where people live upon each other as the Americans do, instead of for each other as the Altrurians do; but he has some glimmerings of the beauty of our living, and he has undoubtedly the wish to be fair to our ideals. He is unable to value our devotion to the spirit of Christianity amid the practices which seem to deny it; but he evidently wishes to recognize the possibility of such a thing. He at least accords us the virtues of our defects, and, among the many visitors who have censured us, he has not seen us with his censures prepared to fit the instances; in fact, the very reverse has been his method.

      Many of the instances which he fits with his censures are such as he could no longer note, if he came among us again. That habit of celebrating the munificence of the charitable rich, on which he spends his sarcasm, has fallen from us through the

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