Short collection of newspaper articles from a visit by Kipling to San Francisco, Chicago, and other US cities in 1889. An interesting view of America in the 1880's, as Rudyard Kipling visits and writes of his experiences. A short book with 'notes' on Chicago, the American Army and the like, Kipling can't hide his snobbery at times. He writes of the Chicago slaughterhouses, American women and men, visits Utah and San Francisco.