# The American scene

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68717

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+American+scene+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Author’s point of view and his relation to his subject; but I prefix this word on the chance of any suspected or perceived failure of such references. My visit to America had been the first possible to me for nearly a quarter of a century, and I had before my last previous one, brief and distant to memory, spent other years in continuous absence; so that I was to return with much of the freshness of eye, outward and inward, which, with the further contribution of a state of desire, is commonly held a precious agent of perception. I felt no doubt, I confess, of my great advantage on that score; since if I had had time to becom...

## Chapters

- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/37/index.md)
- [Part 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Part 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/39/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/36/index.md)
- [Part 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/38/index.md)
- [Part 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Part 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/40/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-american-scene-68717/chapters/41/index.md)