Scribner's magazine . In Front of the Casino. result of this contact witli superior maintained between a self-resjiccting,forces, but certainly envy has had a organic, and permanent community and. The Casino Quadrangle—Morning. the artificial, decorative, and more orless transitory element that makes itour chief waterinf>-place. If the latterof these forces withdraws into exclusive-ness, which to anyone who knows itscomposition may easily seem ridiculous,but which may nevertheless occur; orif the former declines into vulg-arity andthe loss of self-respect involved in thebravado of self-asse
Scribner's magazine . In Front of the Casino. result of this contact witli superior maintained between a self-resjiccting,forces, but certainly envy has had a organic, and permanent community and. The Casino Quadrangle—Morning. the artificial, decorative, and more orless transitory element that makes itour chief waterinf>-place. If the latterof these forces withdraws into exclusive-ness, which to anyone who knows itscomposition may easily seem ridiculous,but which may nevertheless occur; orif the former declines into vulg-arity andthe loss of self-respect involved in thebravado of self-assertion, to which con-stant env} of w^liat is quite beyond onesreach indubitably may lead, Newportas we know it now and have known itfor years will certainly suffer a seachange. In other words, the future ofNewport is, one must admit, consider-ably complicated by the peril of snob-bishness, and snobbishness of both vari-eties exemplified by the Anglo-Saxonrace. The English snob, according toan acute observer, meanly admires whatis above him, the American meanly de-spises what is beneath him. Newport undoubtedly has its full share of bothspecies, but it has also, I think, the un-usual advan
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