"We are glad to see these brilliant 'Sketches of American Society,' incorporated into an elegant and portable volume, for they are unquestionably the most veritable pictures of certain classes of New-York society that have been written; we do not except even the equally graphic portraits of 'The Lorgnette.' The great charm of Mr. Bristed's sketches is the life-like characters he introduces as illustrations of the varied phases of American society. These sketches have been read with avidity as they appeared in the serial form, and will doubtless form an inseparable travelling companion to our tourists in their present compact shape, for they possess the interest of a novel, with the piquancy and truthfulness of a personal narrative."--MORRIS & WILLIS'S _Home Journal_. "We must say that this little volume contains some true and vivid sketches of men and manners, and that, notwithstanding its tone of levity, it has within it a good moral. The moral is applicable in all highly-civilized communities, and is simply this--when fashion is made the _exclusive_ rule of life, one may search in vain for a man or woman worth more than a moment's passing glance. All that is manly and intelligent in the one sex, all that is feminine and lovely in the other, gives place to a tasteless coating clumsily laid over a worthless substance."--_New-York Albion._ "These sketches are lively, and adorned with characters whose types, we may safely say whose originals, can be found in New-York in any winter, and in Saratoga and Newport every summer. Mr. BRISTED'S descriptions of gay life in those places certainly gave the English readers of _Fraser's Magazine_ a very truthful and amusing picture of the trifling, bustling existence of the New-Yorker's whose days and nights are passed in the struggle for social notoriety. The book might better be styled, _Germanics_ Sketches of the Ever-striving-to-let-you-see-that-they-the-Upper-Ten-Thousand-are."--_New-York Courier and Enquirer._ "These sketches contain much truthful sarcasm and quiet stabs at vulgarism among the 'upper ten,' all under the garb of pictures of American society in New-York, or 'Sketches of American Society,' as they were called. Written in a rapid and pleasing style, and by a man who had few prejudices against the Americans, they may be considered a pretty fair expose of the ridiculous follies of the American people, while at the same time their many excellent qualities are placed prominently before the reader."--_Rough Notes._ Published by STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 Broadway, N. Y. [Illustration: HENRIETTE SONTAG, COUNTESS DE ROSSI.] LIFE OF HENRIETTE SONTAG, COUNTESS DE ROSSI. WITH INTERESTING SKETCHES BY SCUDO, HECTOR BERLIOZ, LOUIS BOERNE, ADOLPHE ADAM, MARIE AYCARD, JULIE DE MARGUERITTE, PRINCE PUCKLER-MUSKAU, AND THEOPHILE GAUTIER. NEW YORK: STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY. 1852. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by STRINGER AND TOWNSEND,