What admirable ambassadors they make, these English children who have
gone as guests to the United States. " There appmrs to be only one opinion here,'; a friend writes to me from New York, " concerning the youngsters who have arrived_ admiration and astonishment. Americans are exclaiming over their good looks and good behaviour, their vitality and self- reliance (they don't need anyone to entertain them) and their speech. American children have no vocabulary ; these talk freely, pointedly and in their own language." Incidentally, they made the best of first impressions by delighting the reporters, particularly the young gentleman of, I think, ten, who after supplying all the information he deemed requisite, asked his journalist-interrogator gel-tinily and comprehensively, " Is there anything else you'd like to know, my man? " What a pity Sir George Paish could not be more childlike in a different way.
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