CHAPTER XIII. 



THE FIRST AMERICAN TOUR (continued}. 



Success of the "Lowell" Lectures The Sailor and the Whale Interview with 

 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes A Dinner Party of Professors Some more 

 American Nomenclature Various American Peculiarities Shop-window 

 Advertisement on a large Scale "Dangerous Passages" and their 

 Meaning Gold versus Bank-notes American Chairs and their Defects 

 A Curious New Year's Custom Pedestrians and their Difficulties Super- 

 stition and Religion The Cult of the Horse Shoe American Railways and 

 their Peculiarities House-lifting The Hotel " Office " " Checking " 

 Luggage "Serfdom" versus "Freedom" American Clerical Costume 

 The Black Waiter and his ways Negroes and ' ' Coloured Men " A 

 Black Waiter with a Cold Stories of Negro Life Negroes in Office The 

 Chinese in America Wing Lee and his Troubles Opium Smoking 

 American Manners Children and their Behaviour Thanksgiving Day and 

 Washington's Birthday Incessant Elections and their Results American 

 Cookery " Pie " Bear and " Corn-cakes." 



MEANWHILE the stipulated twelve sketch-lectures were 

 being delivered on Tuesday and Friday evenings at the 

 Lowell Institute, and always with great and increasing 

 success. Just as in England, the drawings excited the 

 greatest enthusiasm. People listened with deep interest 

 to the lectures themselves, and were always quick to 

 pick up a point, or to follow the thread of an argu- 

 ment ; but the loudest applause was always evoked by 

 the rapid sketches which were made in so many colours 

 upon the great black canvas. I quote my father's own 

 account of the lecture on the Whale, the first part of 

 which was given on the 13th of November : 



