Chapter V

Description of an American Rout.--A Flirtation.--The
Floor kept by the same Set of Dancers.--Fashionable
Characters.--An Unfortunate Girl at a Party.--Inquiry
instituted in her Behalf.--Anecdote of two Fashionable
young Ladies at Nahant.--Aristocratic Feelings of the
Americans carried abroad.--Anecdotes.--Reflections on
the Manners of the Higher Classes.--Anecdotes illustrative of Western
Politeness and Hospitality.--Kentucky Hospitality.--Hypocrisy
of the Higher Orders of Americans.--Aristocracy
in Churches.--An American Aristocrat compared
to Shylock.--A Millionnaire.--Two Professional Men.--Stephen
Gerard.--A Gentleman of Norman Extraction.--Different
Methods resorted to for procuring Ancestors.--Americans
and the English contrasted.--A Country Representative--Method
of making him desert his Principles.--Political
Synonyms.--Contempt for Democracy.--Expectations
of the American Aristocracy.--Objections to
Waltzing.--Announcement of Supper. 190

CHAPTER VI.

A German Dissertation on Eating.--Application of Eating
to Scientific, Moral, and Political Purposes.--Democrats
in America not in the Habit of entertaining People.--Consequences
of this Mistake.--The Supper.--Dialogue
between a Country Representative and a Fashionable
Lady.--Mode of winning Country Members.--Hatred of
the Higher Classes of everything belonging to Democracy.--Attachment
of the Old Families to England.--Hatred of
the “Vulgar English.”--The French, and even the English,
not sufficiently aristocratic for the Americans.--Generosity
of the Americans toward England.--A Fashionable
Young Lady.--An American Exquisite.--Middle-aged
Gentlemen and Ladies.--Americans not understanding
how to amuse themselves, because they do not know how
to laugh.--Negroes the happiest People in the United
States.--Breaking-up of the Party.--Gallantry of the
Gentlemen. 228

CHAPTER VII.

Late Hours kept in New York.--The Oyster-shops of
New York compared to those of Philadelphia.--Important
Schism on that Subject.--The Café de l’Indépendance.--A
French Character.--Description of a Fashionable Oyster-shop.--A
sensible American just returned from Paris.--His
account of American Aristocracy abroad.--Mr. L***
and Mr. Thistle.--A shrewd Yankee Tailor in Paris.--His
Advice to his Countrymen.--An American Senator
scorning to become the fee’d Advocate of the Mob, after
the manner of O’Connell. 277

CHAPTER VIII.

Return Home.--A Passage from the Edinburgh Review,
apologetical of American Federalism.--Speculation on the
Subject.--Little Reward of Democracy in the United States.--The
Higher Classes contending for the Purse.--Consequence
of this Policy.--Declaration of an American Reviewer
with regard to American Poets.--Their Reward in
Europe.--Falling asleep.--The Nightmare. 306

ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA.