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Title: "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931 Habberton, John, 1842-1921
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Y. Huber co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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men are presidents of large colleges in theUnited States; colleges,it is true,intended solelyfor the education of members of their own sex;nevertheless the course of study and the subse-quent social and literary standing of the gradu-ates shows that the work done in these institu-tions is well done. The best proof of this is inthe better colleges for girls in the United States.The demand for scholarships far exceeds thesupply, and there are millionaires in this countrywho have not yet been able to put their daugh-ters in any one of the three or four best femi-nine colleges in the land. In literature woman has made her way to anextent which every one knows, if he reads atall. Our most popular novels are all writtenby women. Women write a great deal of ourpoetry. It is impossible to find a first-class mag-azine which does not contain a number of con-tributions by women, and those contributions arequite as much talked about aud quite as fre- SEflliS OF THE THlJ^TEEfi Ot^IGIflflli STATES.
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RHODE ISLAND (CONNECTICUT WOMAN AND H^R WORK. 02D quently read as anytliing written by the mostprominent masculine minds in the land. As anovelist, the young woman is immeasurably thesuperior of the young man. No young manever wrote a novel as famous as Charles Au-chester at as early an age (seventeen years) asthat of the young lady who is the author of thisstill much-read book; and our publishers areflooding the market with other novels by womenwho have not yet reached their majority. Ifquick perception, facility of expression, andpiquant comment are sufficient to make thenovelist, our future novels must be written prin-cipally by young women. That they make somedreadful blunders is very true. Some of themost abominable books that have been inflictedupon a much-suffering public during the pastyear have been from the pens of young womenwho ought to have known better, if they hadknown anything at all. Nevertheless, it is agreat deal easier in literature to tone down thanto tone up, and

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