JENNIE JEROME (Lady Randolph Churchill) 239 NELLIE HAZELTINE (Mrs. Frederick W. Paramore) 257 MARY VICTORIA LEITER (Baroness Curzon of Kedleston) 264 NEW YORK AS A SOCIAL CENTRE 288 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration] PAGE EMILY MARSHALL (Mrs. William Foster Otis). From portrait painted by Chester Harding in 1830; owned by her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Eliot, of Boston, by whose permission it is here reproduced for the first time in colors _Frontispiece_ MARCIA BURNS (Mrs. John Peter Van Ness). From miniature by James Peale, painted in 1797; owned by the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C. 12 THEODOSIA BURR (Mrs. Joseph Alston). From the original engraving by Charles B. J. F. Saint Memin; owned by Hampton L. Carson, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whose permission it is here reproduced 22 ELIZABETH PATTERSON (Madame Jerome Bonaparte). From portrait painted by Quinçon; owned by her grandson, Mr. Charles Bonaparte, of Baltimore, by whose permission it is here reproduced for the first time 42 MARY CATON (Lady Wellesley). From portrait owned by Mrs. Charles Carroll Mactavish, of Baltimore, daughter of General Winfield Scott. Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and reproduced by permission of Miss Emily Mactavish, now Sister Mary Agnes of the Visitation, at Mount de Sales, Catonsville, Maryland 64 CORA LIVINGSTON (Mrs. Thomas Pennant Barton). From a miniature painted by herself. Reproduced for the first time by permission of her niece, Miss Julia Barton Hunt, of Montgomery Place, Barrytown-on-the-Hudson 84 OCTAVIA WALTON (Madame Le Vert). From portrait, reproduced by permission of her kinswoman, Miss Josephine Walton. Present owner, Mr. George Walton Reab, of Augusta, Georgia, grandson of Madame Le Vert 104 FANNY TAYLOR (Mrs. Thomas Harding Ellis). From portrait painted by Thomas Sully. Reproduced for the first time by permission of her husband, Colonel Thomas Harding Ellis. Present owner, her adopted son, Mr. Beverly Randolph Harrison, of Amherst, Virginia 118 SALLY CHEVALIER (Mrs. Abram Warwick). Painted by Thomas Sully. Reproduced for the first time by permission of Colonel Thomas Harding Ellis 122