CONTENTS. Page INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. ICEBERGS AND WHALES. HALIFAX. THE STIKES STEAMER. YOUNG MEN S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NEWFOUNDLAND DOGS. GREENLAND GAME- COLONIAL HEROES 1 CHAPTER II. COLONIAL VOTERS. GROCERS AND TELEGRAPHS. POLITICAL BALLOON. CAPTAINVICARS. TALKATIVE WAITER. FORKS AND RAKES PRAYER MEETING. SWEARING 9 CHAPTER III. NEW BRUNSWICK. IN A CANOE. THE TAMARASKA. A STORM A SKUNK. THE MIRAGE. QUEBEC . 21 CHAPTER IV. EMIGRANTS. RAILWAYS. RAGGED SCHOOL GIRLS. BOYS LETTERS. LONGEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. SOLDIERS READING ROOM. OTTAWA. ADVEN TURE . . 28 0 Oi 4J.oJ vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. Page AMERICAN FASHIONABLES. SILENTYANKEES TORONTO. A RACE AT EATING. AN ELECTION. THE TELE GRAPH CABLE GAOL BIRDS. HOW TO SEE NIA GARA. SLAVERY 43 CHAPTEK VI. BROADWAY. TELEGRAPH SERMON. A DAY IN THE SLUMS TATTOED SHOEBLACK. BOY POLICE. SUNDAY BAND. LEE AVENUE SCHOOL. A PIC-NIC . 54 CHAPTER VII. THE CABLE FEVER. FIREMEN. ODD MOTTOES. A BARRISTER S WIG. LUNATICS. CALLIOPE. quot quot ISMS HOUSE OF REFUGE. BOY FACTORY. REVIVAL PRAYER-MEETING CHAPTER VIII. PHILADELPHIA REVIVAL. EUCHRE CLUB. PREACH ING-TENT. BLACK PRAYER-MEETING. GIRARD COLLEGE FLOWERING ALOE. WASHINGTON. KILLING MEN AND PIGS 80 CHAPTER IX. SLAVE SUNDAY SCHOOL A REAL LADY.quot JIM HAMLY.quot CINCINNATI PREACHING TENT. FELLOW-DINERS. CAPTAIN VICARS. FAR WEST RAILWAYS . . 89 CHAPTER X. KANSAS. SNAGS ON THE MISSOURI. SLAVE-HOLDING MINISTER. MUSIC. THE CALIFORNIAN ROAD. quot DOLLAR.quot quotTHEBABY TOWN.quot HOMETHOUGHTS 100 64 CONTENTS. Vll CHAPTER XL Page MISSISSIPPI. NAUVOO AND MORMONS. FAIRIES. SNOW. MINNESOTA. MINNE-HA-HA. CHICAGO. COLOURED CHURCH. INDIAN SCALPING . . .111 CHAPTER XII. CONVENTION AT LA CROSSE. FREE NEGRO SETTLE MENT. TRENTON FALLS. SLEEPING TRAINS. LADIES. THEODORE PARKER S CHURCH . . 121 AMERICAN VOTING 138 YANKEE NOTIONS . 150 INTRODUCTION. IF a huge volume taken at random from a new Encyclopaedia were to be thrust before you, and, just as you get interested in one article, the pages were suddenly turned over to the middle of another, and then a second volume given to you next day, and a third the day after, and so on every day, with the same sud den compulsory changes, for weeks together if you were tossed on the wide Atlantic for a fortnight in a steamer to settle this confusion, and then asked, on your landing, to give a rational account of the best articles in the book, you would be very like a traveller who has been three months in America, and straightway sits down to indite his views at home.