ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH from an American Point of View

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1909. Hardcover. (viii), 434 pages; Clean and secure in original navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Original owner's name "Jennings" on ffep. Contents include: First Impressions; Who Are The English?; The Land Of Compromise; English Home Life; Are The English Dull?; Sport; Ireland, An English Country Town; Society; And Conclusion. THE AUTHOR: Price Collier (1860-1913), American writer, lived, while a boy, in Switzerland and England. After studying at Leipzig and at the Harvard Divinity School (B.D. 1882) he was a Unitarian clergyman, but retired from the ministry in 1891. His maternal grandfather, Hiram Price, was a U.S. congressman. He is best known for his clever sketches of national character in America and the Americans from the French Point of View (1896); England and the English from an American Point of View (1909); The West in the East from an American Point of View (1911) and Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View (1913). Collier's daughter Katharine Price Collier St. George served nine terms in the U.S House of Representatives Congress taking Hamilton Fish's former seat representing the vast district in the Hudson River Valley north of New York City. PROVENANCE: James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) was a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings then headed West and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela for another mining job. Finally, his talents as an innovative mining engineer, took him to South Africa. During 1889-1905 he was consulting engineer of H. Eckstein, in Johannesburg, and Wemher Beit, in London. Jennings was chiefly responsible for thr fevelopment and expansions of their mines, employing the most technologically advanced methods and equipment available in the day. In the rough and tumble of South Africa, he managed to keep out of John Hays Hammond's conspiracy to overthrow Kruger's government and to earn a fortune (the equivalent of about 10 million pounds in 2014) before he returned to America in 1905. .