Northwestern university studies 8. FFEP somewhat darkened from enclosed newspaper clippings. Contents: Translator's Foreword; Author's Foreword; Frontispiece; I Am Happy to Have Reached This Station; Three Weeks with this Serene and Hospitable People; One Soon Tires of Regularity; You Can Immediately Be Presented to Mr. Monroe; True Patriotism and Zeal; If He Considers Himself a Little Lord He Will Be Looked Down Upon in This Country; The Harbour is Full of Sailing Ships; What is There That an American Will Not Try? Up the Majestic Hudson, Cramped Between Sky-High Cliffs; A Steamboat Goes a Steady Pace; Prisoners Get No Hard Bread; Truth Spreads its Amazing Light in All Directions; Lovely Young Ladies and Crude Young Men; With Moderation and Wisdom The New Democracy Faces New Problems; Genuine Business Sense and the Spirit of Speculation; The Burgeoning of Business from Boston to New Orleans; Industry a Stepchild; Movement to the West; West Point: Unappreciated Necessity; A Navy That Dared Compete with Proud England; Settlers and Indians; Dull Finance and Dramatic Trial; Steady Progress Toward Power; Index.