This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... XII MID-CENTURY GAYETIES THE Washington life of the days of Presidents Van Buren, Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore presented many of the characteristics that distinguish it to-day. Although the city has spread out upon lines of beauty, and muddy streets and inadequate sidewalks, over which cows and pigs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... XII MID-CENTURY GAYETIES THE Washington life of the days of Presidents Van Buren, Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore presented many of the characteristics that distinguish it to-day. Although the city has spread out upon lines of beauty, and muddy streets and inadequate sidewalks, over which cows and pigs rambled at will, no longer annoy the visitor, as they did M. de Bacourt in 1840, the capital still retains a certain simplicity and homelike charm that belonged to it in earlier times. Then, as now, the presence of many foreigners in the diplomatic service gave to this city a cosmopolitan character, while a generous, warm-hearted hospitality which belonged to its social life, being distinctly American, has not disappeared amid the growth and expansion of the larger city, with its stricter code of social and diplomatic etiquette. In addition to the official circles and the changing population of Washington, it has always possessed an attractive and interesting society, composed of the old families of the District and of those who, having gone there upon business, have yielded to its attractions and made it their home. Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, who visited Washington in 1849, while keenly alive to certain crudities and incongruities in its life, found much to admire in the beauty of its public buildings and the graceful hospitality and intelligence of its citizens. M. de Bacourt, on the other hand, looking always through glasses dimmed by prejudice, saw nothing but the defects of the rambling village-like capital, which he was pleased to call his prison. After being hospitably received at the White House by Mr. Van Buren, whom he had met on the Continent, the French diplomat had nothing more favorable to say of the President than that "his...
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Good; No jacket. 1902 J. B. Lippincott Company. First Edition. Personally inscribed to former owner and signed "The Authoress" on half-title page. Hardcover has yellow cloth-covered boards with gold-stamped lettering and floral and line designs on the cover and spine. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Tissued color frontispiece. Black and white plates. Binding cracked before frontispiece; webbing visible, frontispiece partially detached. Both hinges cracked, some webbing showing, not broken. Binding becoming loose in a few places in the text, with webbing peeking at signature divisions. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. 2-inch tear in cloth along back spine edge. Covers lightly rubbed. Covers have a few light smudges. A few pages are dog eared. A few pages have nicks or small tears at edges. Some pages have brown stains from flowers that were pressed between them. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. 346 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by author. First Edition.
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Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Front and rear hinge cracked. Writing inside. Owner's name on pastedown. (washington dc, history, manners, customs)
