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• The English Spirit: Extract from a Letter to a Neutral (London: Darling and Son, 1916), by Englishman (page images here at Penn)
• The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the English Mind (London: A. Rivers, 1907), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The True-Born Englishman (based on an 1889 annotated version of Defoe's 1703 edition), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Henry Morley (HTML at luminarium.org)
• The True-Born Englishman: A Satire (based on an 1855 modernized spelling edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• England and the English from an American point of view (Duckworth & co., 1910), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Towns and types (Houlston & sons; [etc., etc.], 1905), by Mark Allerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American of the future, and other essays. (C. Scribner's sons, 1910), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Sprach' und Art der Deutschen und Engländer. (Mayer & Müller, 1903), by Max Meyerfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English leadership. (C. A. Nichols company, 1918), by William Howard Taft, Grace F. Caldwell, Donald E. Smith, and J. N. Larned (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and opinions of John Buncle, esquire (G. Routledge and sons, limited;, 1904), by Thomas Amory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chivalrous England (J. Truscott & son, ltd., 1916), by André de Bavier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English people; a study of their political psychology (T.F. Unwin, 1904), by Emile Gaston Boutmy and E. English (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der geist der englischen politik und das gespenst der einkreisung Deutschlands. (E. Rowohlt, 1929), by Hermann Kantorowicz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arrows of desire, essays on our national character and outlook (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1920), by J. S. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oppressed English (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917), by Ian Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der englische volkscharakter, seine natürlichen u. historischen grundlagen (Akademische verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h., 1925), by Karl Wildhagen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai d'une psychologie politique du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle (A. Colin, 1901), by Émile Gaston Boutmy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Händler und Helden; patriotische besinnungen (Duncker & Humblot, 1915), by Werner Sombart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Americans and the Britons (D. Appleton, 1914), by Frederick C. de Sumichrast (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The contrast (R. M. McBride & company, 1924), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explaining the Britishers : the story of England's mighty effort in liberty's cause, as seen by an American (George H. Doran Co., 1919), by Frederic William Wile, Frank Hazenplug, and George H. Doran Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• England, ein Britenspiegel; Schlaglicher aus der Kriegs-Kultur und Sittengeschichte (R. Lutz, 1916), by Erwin Rosen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Britain and the war (Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by André Chevrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards; an essay in comparative psychology (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1928), by Salvador de Madariaga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English Pharisees, French crocodiles, and other Anglo-French typical characters (Cassell, 1892), by Max O'Rell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French and the English (Dodd, Mead, 1913), by Laurence Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Angleterre et l'Allemagne en France; de l'influence des idées anglaises et germaniques sur l'esprit français. (Amyot, 1854), by Eugène Loudun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bracebridge Hall. (Macmillan & Co., 1877), by Washington Irving, Randolph Caldecott, R. & R. Clark (Firm), Macmillan & Co, and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits. (J. R. Osgood and company, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits, Representative men, & other essays (J. M. Dent & Co., 1908), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lebensfragen des britischen Weltreiches (E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1921), by Friedrich W. D. Brie, Carl Heinrich Becker, and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. Beirat für die Auslandsstudien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poetry and national character; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge on 13 May 1915 (University press, 1915), by W. Macneile Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Ticknor and Fields, 1966), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England and the Englishman in German literature of the eighteenth century (Columbia university press, 1921), by J. Frederick Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and English traits (P. F. Collier, 1909), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The candor and good nature of Englishmen, exemplified in their deliberate, cautious, and charitable way of characteristizing the customs, manners, constitution, and religion of neighbouring nations, of which their own authors are every where produced as vouchers, their moderate, equitable, and humane mode of governing states dependant on them, their elevated, courteous, and conciliating stile and deportment on all occasions : with, in particular, a true and well-supported specimen of the igenuous and liberal manner in which they carry on religious controversy : to which are prefixed proposals for printing by subscription Eusebius, or, Essays on the principal virtues, vices, and passions, with some account of that work (Sold by Bew, 1777), by Thomas O'Brien MacMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
• National character and the factors in its formation (Methuen, 1927), by Ernest Barker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest for a lost race; presenting the theory of Paul B. Du Chaillu, that the English-speaking people of to-day are descended from the Scandinavians rather than the Teutons--from the Normans rather than the Germans (J.P. Morton & company, printers to the Filson club, 1907), by Thomas Edward Pickett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ethnic ideals of the British isles (Lincoln, 1920), by Constance Rummons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of Italy, England and America with essays on various subjects, in morals and literature (Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1815), by François-René Chateaubriand (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's wrong with England? A timely exposure and scathing indictment of amazing British foibles, ludicrous conventions, archaic laws, inefficiency, apathy, sloth, smug complacency, sickly sentiment, hypocracy, humbug, chaos and confusion responsible for Britains degeneracy! Pepper papers seasoned with sage, salt and vinegar. A faithful record of conditions prevailing in post-war Britain. (R. Hayes, limited, 1928), by A. Leonard Summers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dissertations : English literature, 2 (C. Lehmann, 1892), by Lorenz Hahner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national mind: English, French, German (American book company, 1938), by Michael John Demiashkevich (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the Englishman in German literature of the eighteenth century (Columbia university press, 1921), by John Alexander Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volkscharakter und Kiegspolitik in Frankreich, Russland, England (C.A. Schwetschke, 1916), by Robert W. Horn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Society at war, 1914-1916 (Houghton Mifflin, 1931), by Caroline E. Playne (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the war (1914-1915) (Doubleday, Page, 1917), by André Chevrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French and English. A comparison (Roberts Brothers, 1889), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ce qu'il faut connaître de l'âme anglaise (Boivin & cie, 1927), by Louis François Cazamian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England (Houghton Mifflin, 1922), by An overseas Englishman (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to like an Englishman (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946), by Cecil Vincent Raymond Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ame des Anglais. (B. Grasset, 1910), by A. Bulteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England without and within (Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1881), by Richard Grant White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geist englischen politik und das gespenst der einkreisung Deutschlands. (E. Rowohlt, 1929), by Hermann Kantorowicz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der englische charakter, heute wie gestern (S. Fischer, 1915), by Theodor Fontane and Samuel Saenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American of the future, and other essays (C. Scribner's sons, 1909), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view. (C. Scribner, 1911), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Racial origins of English character, with an appendix on language (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1926), by R. N. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French and English : a comparison (Roberts Brothers, 1891), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English people; a study of their political psychology (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by Emile Gaston Boutmy and E. English (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French and the English (Chapman & Hall, 1913), by Laurence Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English, 1909-1922, a gossip (E.P. Dutton, 1923), by Frank Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personality and nationality : a study in recent history (Headley Brothers, 1914), by Richard Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern outlook; studies of English and America tendencies (Herbert & Daniel, 1910), by J. A. Hobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (T. Y. Crowell & company, 1899), by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Andrew Jackson George (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conventional cant, its results and remedy (K. Paul, Trench & co., 1887), by Sidney Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Dodge, [1911?], 1911), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans and the Britons (Duckworth and Company, 1915), by Frederick C. de Sumichrast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are we a stupid people? By one of them. (Paul, 1908), by Charles Joseph Weld-Blundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The egregious English (G. Richards, 1903), by T. W. H. Crosland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English character (T. N. Foulis, 1912), by Spencer Leigh Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Character and characteristic men (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1894), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the people : an analysis of the English mind (Alston Rivers, 1907), by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contrast. (Arno Press, 1974), by Hilaire Belloc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English soul (W. Heinemann, 1914), by Augustine Bulteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England (John Lane, 1922), by Overseas Englishman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English are like that (C. Scribner's Sons, 1941), by Philip Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view (Duckworth & Co., 1909), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England, ein Britenspiegel; schlaglichter aus der kriegs-kultur- und sittengeschichte (R. Lutz, 1916), by Erwin Rosen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English traits. (Phillips, Sampson, 1857), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English national character (Henry Frowde, 1896), by M. Creighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The egregious English (G. P. Putnam's sons; [etc., etc.], 1903), by T. W. H. Crosland (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (G. Routledge, 1857), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analogies and contrasts; or, Comparative sketches of France and England. (T. C. Newby, 1848), by C. F. Henningsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of Italy, England and America, with essays on various subjects, in morals and literature (Published by M. Carey, no. 121 Chestnut-street, 1816), by François-René Chateaubriand and No. 121 Chestnut-street Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character and characteristic men (J.R. Osgoood, 1877), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schism in the Anglo-Saxon race. (American News Co., 1887), by Goldwin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits. (Phillips, Sampson and company, 1858), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English, an interpretation (McClure, Phillips & co., 1907), by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England : eine Voruntersuchung (Manzsche k.u.k. Hof-Verlags und Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1915), by Georg Landauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare and England (Pub. for the British academy by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1918), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Utopia found : being an apology for Irish absentees : addressed to a friend in Connaught (Printed by Gye and Son, 1813), by Edward Mangin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englische Denkträgheit, eine Völkerpsychologische Studie (E. Reinhardt, 1915), by Ernst Schultze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Westeuropäische und deutsche Kultur. (E.S. Mittler, 1927), by Max Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The true-born Englishman ; John Sheppard (Plan de la Tour [France] : Éditions d'aujourd'hui, 1980), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Explaining the Britishers (W. Heinemann, 1918), by Frederic William Wile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ethnic ideals of the British Isles (Lincoln, 1920), by Constance Rummons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Britain and the war (Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by André Chevrillon, Norman Croom-Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England and the English from an American point of view (C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• England, ein Britenspiegel (R. Lutz, 1916), by Erwin Carlé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Angleterre et la guerre ; l'opinion, l'illusion de sécurité, l'appel à la conscience, les hommes, l'adaptation, aujourd'hui et demain (Hachette et Cie, 1916), by André Chevrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English traits. (Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explaining the Britishers, By Frederic William Wile ... the story of the British empire's mighty effort in liberty's cause (W. Heinemann, 1918), by Frederic William Wile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England and the war (1914-1915) (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917), by André Chevrillon, Chandler Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Carpenter Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin and company; [etc., etc.], 1883), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits. (Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view (C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reviewers reviewed, or British falsehoods detected by American truths. (Published by R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, no.1, City hotel, Broadway [Forbes & co., printers, 78 Gold-street], 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true-born Englishman : a satire (A. Mann, 1836), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits. (Unit Library, 1902), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view (C.Scribner's sons, 1916), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Houghton, Mifflin, and company, 1886), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conseils à un jeune français partant pour l'Angleterre. (Imp. F. Paillart, 1927), by André Maurois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Character and sportsmanship (Williams and Norgate, 1927), by Theodore Andrea Cook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Character and characteristic men (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Britain and Germany; a study in national characteristics (American association for international conciliation, 1912), by Richard Burdon Haldane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The true-born Englishman; a satyr. ([London], 1700), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the Englishman in German literature of the eighteenth century. (AMS Press, 1966), by John Alexander Kelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kulturhistorisches im englischen volkslied. I. Naturgefühl-mann und frau, eltern und kinder-essen und trinken, in den Robin-Hood-balladen. (C. Lehmann, 1892), by Lorenz Hahner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai d'une psychologie politique du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle. (A. Colin, 1922), by Emile Gaston Boutmy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who are the English? (D. Bogue, 1881), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Norseman's views of Britain and the British. (Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, 1863), by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bracebridge hall, or, The humorists : A medley (G. P. Putnam, 1865), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• French and English : a comparison (Roberts brothers, 1889), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• National characteristics, and Flora and fauna of London. (Smith, Elder and co., 1872), by R. E. Francillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollection of Italy, England and America, with essays on various subjects, in morals and literature (Carey, no. 121 Chesnut-street., 1816), by François-René Chateaubriand (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English (Published by the Society by permission of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, 1920), by Rudyard Kipling and Royal Society of St. George (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the war (Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by André Chevrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English public opinion after the restoration. (T.F. Unwin, 1902), by Gerald Berkeley Hurst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arrows of desire : essays on our national character and outlook (Macmillan, 1920), by John Stuart Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• England (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Osgood, 1878), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bretland og Britarne. (Norske samlaget, 1873), by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje and Halfdan Halvorsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and the English from an American point of view (C. Scribner's, 1911), by Price Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Osgood, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Français et anglais. (Perrin et cie, 1891), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and G. Labouchere (page images at HathiTrust)
• French and English : a comparison (B. Tauchnitz, 1889), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Land ohne Musik : englische Gesellschaftsprobleme (G. Müller, 1914), by Oscar A. H. Schmitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocherki sovremennoĭ Anglīi. (Redak︠t︡sī︠ia︡ zhurnala "Russkoe bogatstvo", 1903), by Dioneo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Character and characteristic men. (Houghton, 1896), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woher das selbstgefühl der Engländer? Vortrag auf veranlassung des Ausschusses für volkstümliche hochschulkurse am 2. februar 1915 im Tivolisaale zu Hannover gehalten (Hahn, 1916), by Heinrich Tilemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short guide to Great Britain (War and Navy Department, 1943), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Waterloo bis Antwerpen (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1915), by Ferdinand Friedrich Carl Lehmann-Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der englische Volkscharakter (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1915), by Levin Ludwig Schücking (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Charakerisierung der Engländer (A. Marcus & E. Weber, 1915), by Arnold Schröer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The oppressed English (Angus & Robertson, 1918), by Ian Hay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bracebridge Hall; or, The humourists. (Putnam, 1904), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• English traits (Hurst, in the 1910s), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Englands Fiegeljahren (C. Reissner, 1901), by Alexander Tille (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English traits (Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1887., 1887), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• French & English : A comparison, by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Egregious English, by T. W. H. Crosland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Quest for a Lost Race, by Thomas Edward Pickett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Oppressed English, by Ian Hay (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters, by Max O'Rell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The six distinguishing characters of a Parliament-man address'd to the good people of England. (London : [s.n.], 1700), by Daniel Defoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true-born Englishman a satyr. ([London : s.n.], 1700), by Daniel Defoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A character of England as it was lately presented in a letter to a noble man of France. (Londons [i.e. London] : Printed for Jo. Crooke ..., 1659), by John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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