# The Spirit of America

Author: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41862

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Spirit+of+America+Van+Dyke&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To inscribe your name upon this volume, dear Madame, is to recall delightful memories of my year in France. Your sympathy encouraged me in the adventurous choice of a subject so large and simple for a course of lectures at the Sorbonne. While they were in the making, you acted as an audience of one, in the long music-room at Hostel and in the forest of St. Gervais, and gave gentle counsels of wisdom in regard to the points likely to interest and retain a larger audience of Parisians in the _Amphithéâtre Richelieu_. Then, the university adventure being ended without mishap, your skill as a translator admirably clothed the lectures in your own lucid language, and sent them out to help a lit...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-america-41862/chapters/16/index.md)