The New England Magazine 1904 Vol 30 Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9780243015795
Total Pages : 758 pages
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Download or read book New England Magazine, Vol. 31 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New England Magazine, Vol. 31: An Illustrated Monthly; September 1904-February 1905 In appearance the Russian Jewish farmer is much like that impression of the Slav peasant you carried away from the reading of Tolstoi or Tur geniev, except that his eyes are never dull and heavy - a short, spare, heavily - bearded man, often blue eyed and tawny. He is a genial host, talkative, thoughtful and, perhaps from his wholesome, sweetening contact with the soil, without the ebullient boastfulness of his success ful city cousin. With the second generation, both of city and of country, tendencies seem to be away from narrowness toward an almost dangerous lati tude. From his public school and his less prejudiced observation of the business world and that outer shell, at least, of social life that comes within his ken, the child ab sorbs a wealth of new American isms. He is the interpreter of Amer ican life, with which he is passion ately in love, to his more circum scribed parents, too Old to learn to read English or to talk comfortably in any tongue but the Old Yiddish, the jargon of the European Ghetto. While the beautiful affection and reverence so pre-eminently charac teristic of the Jewish family life is still strong, the reversed relation of teacher and taught, the inevitable superiority of the son in his grasp of things material and things American tend to make him look Often merely with affectionate tolerance upon the much-time-consuming customs and Observances of his parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.