# The West Indies

Author: Henderson, John; Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson), 1869-1963 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55859

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+West+Indies+Henderson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In Britain we have lost the art of correct perspective. We see distant things through jaundiced eyes; as a nation we are too prone to regard over-sea lands and peoples with compassion tempered with contempt, or with envy and timidity. To ensure our respect and sympathy a country must be successful; we have no room in our Empire for failures. America, because of her commercial genius and industrial enterprise, we respect and revere and imitate. We exaggerate the successes of the States and credit the American with commercial omnipotence. The word American stands in the unprinted national dictionary as meaning efficient, successful, up-to-date. I have heard that English tradesmen have label...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-west-indies-55859/chapters/25/index.md)