Europe and the Bright American Girl

"Europe and the Bright American Girl” is a popular essay by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 – 1927). Two American girls get acquainted with an officer of the Saxon army on a skating-rink and due to the difference of manners and behaviour, conventional for European society, they get into a comic situation. Jerome Klapka Jerome is an acknowledged artist in words, a keen observer of life, who describes even seamy sides of life delicately and mildly.