Having fulfilled my duty as chairman, in that I have told you
nothing that you did not know before--except, perhaps, my swimming
feat, which never got into the Press because I have a very bad
publicity agent--I will not detain you longer from what you are
really wanting to get at; but ask Mr. Leacock to proceed at once
with his lecture on "Frenzied Fiction."




CONTENTS

I. THE BALANCE OF TRADE IN IMPRESSIONS
II. I AM INTERVIEWED BY THE PRESS
III. IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON
IV. A CLEAR VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF ENGLAND
V. OXFORD AS I SEE IT
VI. THE BRITISH AND THE AMERICAN PRESS
VII. BUSINESS IN ENGLAND
VIII. IS PROHIBITION COMING TO ENGLAND?
IX. "WE HAVE WITH US TO-NIGHT"
X. HAVE THE ENGLISH ANY SENSE OF HUMOUR?



My Discovery of England

I. The Balance of Trade in Impressions

FOR some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men