Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) _PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS._ THE LIFE OF HENRIETTE SONTAG, COUNTESS DE ROSSI. [Illustration: portrait of Henriette Sontag] NEW YORK: STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY 1852 Now Ready--Third Edition of "The Heirs of Randolph Abbey." Price 25 cents. Second Edition of "The Upper Ten Thousand." Price 50 cents. And Nearly Ready--"The Adventures of Lilly Dawson." Price 25 cents. "DAGUERREOTYPE VIEWS OF UPPERTENDOM" THE UPPER TEN THOUSAND: Sketches of American Society. By C. ASTOR BRISTED. SECOND EDITION REVISED. [Illustration] With ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. Price 50 cents in paper; cloth, 75 cents. Opinions of the Press. "NEW-YORK LIFE, by a New-Yorker, clever, sparkling, and life-like. A set of daguerreotypes, in which figure the drawing-rooms of the Avenue and Union Place--the most noted _salons_ of the town--the butterfly crowds of the watering-places, and pre-eminently--the Course. The hero of the book, a modern fast young man, who has in a measure outgrown his fastness, and looks patronizingly on the aspiring efforts of a very young New-Yorker, cicerones you about, showing up the lions of town and country, and all with a cool _blase_ sort of air that is wondrously telling. With a stroke of the pen he annihilates the huge pretensions of some _parvenu_ or bestows the final stab on the waning virtue of some dashing belle. In the same moment giving a pithy _rationale_ of American Society, and the best _recipe_ for concocting a sherry cobbler; discussing, in the same breath, the popular theology of the town, and the winning pacer on the Long Island course. Throughout, quietly satirical yet seldom exaggerated. Looking at American life and manners from no distant point, but as one who has been in, and of, and through it all, pausing now and then to take down a jotting here, put in a bit of shadow there, making more of life than 'John Timon;' not mere squints through a _Lorgnette_, but broad, steady stares with the naked eye, with now and then the help of a quizzing-glass."--_New-York Evening Mirror._ "They are sufficiently sprinkled with local satire, on a ground of a pervading egotism, to be attractive in a book--in which capacity they will hold their own with such memorable local effusions as IRVING and PAULDING'S _Salmagundi_, HALLECK'S _Croakers_, and MITCHELL'S _Lorgnette_."--_Literary World._