The constant alternations of Hyde Park promenades, not only with suburban racecourses, but with long days under summer suns given to Thames-side picnics, or with rapid flittings on any opportunity to and fro between Mayfair on the one hand, the Boulevard des Italiens, Monte Carlo, or Homburg on the other: these innovations have been brought about by the American Londoner more than by any other single person. The Colonial millionaire or millionairess has not yet been so fully developed as their Transatlantic equivalents. But the process is going steadily forward, no doubt with similar results to follow. The contrast between the amount of international friction that was caused before the Oregon Boundary dispute, and the Trent difference, between the two countries were composed in 1846 and in 1863, respectively, and the comparative ease with which the Venezuela Question in our own day was settled, suggests the solid international advantages of the arrangement under which New York and London have become socially one and the same capital, having their pleasures, their lions and lionesses, their favourite composers, authors, dramatists and players, in common. The late Mr Samuel Ward, who is as well remembered in London as in New York, and who liked to be called the prince of _bon vivants_ at Delmonico's, the king of the lobby at Washington, was a cultivated little old gentleman, of whom it is difficult to conceive as ever having been much less, or more, than some seventy-odd years of age. He was known throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon world as 'Uncle Sam.' He had become popular in English society soon after the examples of the then Lord Hartington and Lord Rosebery included America in the grand tour of every educated Briton. He really did something to entitle him to his universal sobriquet. He was the founder of a social and literary Anglo-American school which has struck its roots deep in the chosen homes of English fashion. As Californian gold preceded Australian, so the Transatlantic force that has transformed the social England of our day has come before the fully organized exercise of a Colonial power of the same sort. But every year brings one visibly nearer its final development, with all the international advantages which will no doubt accompany that event.[122] INDEX A ADDRESSES of Prince Consort on Exhibition of 1851, 322. AGNEW, Mr (now Sir William), sketch of, 51; gives £10,100 for Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire, 52. ALFRED Club, the 'Dandies' Club, 5; named after Count Alfred D'Orsay, 5. ALMACK'S, subscription balls at, at end of 18th century, 196; modern suburban subscription balls, imitations of, 197. AMERICAN elements in modern London Society, 435; countesses and duchesses, 435; embassies and ministers--Washington Irving and Motley, 435; Russell Lowell and Bayard, 436; ladies, their education in Paris, 436; restlessness a characteristic feature of, 436.