Part 1

AMERICANS

Drawn by

CHARLES DANA GIBSON

_New York_: R. H. RUSSELL,

_London_: JOHN LANE

1900

THIS is the fifth book in the regular series of Mr. Gibsons published drawings, consisting of

DRAWINGS BY C. D. GIBSON No. 1

PICTURES OF PEOPLE No. 2

SKETCHES AND CARTOONS No. 3

THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP No. 4

AMERICANS No. 5

Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson’s best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding. Thanks are due Messrs. Mitchell & Miller and Charles Scribners Sons, for their co-operation in making this volume as representative and complete as possible.

Copyright by MITCHELL & MILLER.

Copyright by CHARLES SCRIBNERS & SONS.

THE book is published in Great Britain by especial arrangement with Mr. James Henderson, the proprietor of the English copyright of some of the drawings.

Printed in the United States of America.

Entered at Stationers Hall.

PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORK.

HE DOUBTED IT.

_Mrs. Henrypeck_: YOU HAVE BEEN VERY AGGRAVATING AT TIMES, AND WE HAVE NOT ALWAYS GOT ALONG VERY WELL TOGETHER; BUT STILL, IF I HAD TO DO IT OVER AGAIN, I’D MARRY YOU JUST THE SAME.

_MR. H._ (_under his breath_): I’M NOT SO SURE ABOUT THAT.