race known. The chief stock is English, which is itself so mixed
that no man can trace its ramifications. With this are mingled the
bloods of Ireland, Holland, France, Sweden, and Germany. All this
has been done within but a few years, so that the American may be
said to have no claim to any national type of face. Nevertheless,
no man has a type of face so clearly national as the American. He
is acknowledged by it all over the continent of Europe, and on his
own side of the water is gratified by knowing that he is never
mistaken for his English visitor. I think it comes from the hot-
air pipes and from dollar worship. In the Jesuit his mode of
dealing with things divine has given a peculiar cast of
countenance; and why should not the American be similarly moulded
by his special aspirations? As to the hot-air pipes, there can, I
think, be no doubt that to them is to be charged the murder of all
rosy cheeks throughout the States. If the effect was to be noticed
simply in the dry faces of the men about Wall Street, I should be
very indifferent to the matter. But the young ladies of Fifth
Avenue are in the same category. The very pith and marrow of life
is baked out of their young bones by the hot-air chambers to which
they are accustomed. Hot air is the great destroyer of American
beauty.

In saying that there is very little to be seen in New York I have
also said that there is no way of seeing that little. My assertion
amounts to this; that there are no cabs. To the reading world at
large this may not seem to be much, but let the reading world go to
New York, and it will find out how much the deficiency means. In
London, in Paris, in Florence, in Rome, in the Havana, or at Grand
Cairo, the cab-driver or attendant does not merely drive the cab or
belabor the donkey, but he is the visitor's easiest and cheapest