A Parisian in America

The author has embodied in nervous and somewhat exclamatory English his impressions of American life, letters and manners. On most every page of the book lie the marks of the Latin habit of mind. There is no median line for S. C. de Soissons; for his enthusiasms are occasionally riotous and his critical observations sometimes intemperate. The volume is, however, on the whole, exceptionally appreciative of our democratic institutions, and the people (especially the fair sex) seem to have ple...