Aristocracy in America. From the sketch-book of a German nobleman. vol. 1 (of 2)

· 1863

Walk to the Battery.--The Breakfast.--Conversation of young travelled Americans.--Their Notions of Politics, Negroes, and Women. 16 The Dinner.--Reflections on the Homage paid to American Women.--Observation of a Fashionable Young Lady on American eating.--The Party after Dinner.--An American descanting on the Fashions.--Parallel between English and American Women.--Manner of rising in Society.--Extravagance and Waste of the Middle Classes.--Toad-eating of Fashionable Americans in Europe.--Their Contempt for the Liberal Institutions of their Country.--Manner in which the Society of America may be used as a Means of correcting the Notions of European Exaltados.--The British Constitution in h…

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