[Frontispiece: Rupert Brooke 1913]



Letters from America


by Rupert Brooke.


With a Preface by Henry James




NOTE


The author started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States,
Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the
beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written
as letters to the _Westminster Gazette_. He would probably not have
republished them in their present form, as he intended to write a longer
book on his travels; but they are now printed with only the correction
of a few evident slips.

The two remaining chapters appeared in the _New Statesman_, soon
after the outbreak of war.

Thanks are due to the Editors who have allowed the republication of the