Miss Wharton's chapters are monuments to a past which only lives through her
skilful pen. The volume is handsomely gotten up, with frontbpiece in color, and
numerous reproductions of portraits and miniatures of men and women prominent
in colonial life in the early days of the Republic. The volume includes ' A
Colonial Salon,' 'A Republican Drawing-Room,' 'A Great Social Leader,'
' Social Life in the Federal City,' ' Literature and Art in the Republic,' ' A Nine-
teenth Century Salon,' ' A Ball and a Mystery.' "^North American, V^uXn,



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