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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IXI.	Page
Education of young women in the United States	237
CHAPTER X.
The young woman in the character of a wife	240
CHAPTER XI.
That the equality of conditions contributes to the maintenance of good morals in America	243
CHAPTER XII.
How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes	251
CHAPTER XIII.
That the principle of equality naturally divides the Americans into a number of small private circles	256
CHAPTER XIV.
Some reflections on American manners	259
CHAPTER XV.
Of the gravity of the Americans, and why it does not prevent them from often committing inconsiderate actions	264
CHAPTER XVI.
Why the national vanity of the Americans is more restless and captious than that of the English	268
CHAPTER XVII.
That the aspect of society in the United States is at once excited and monotonous	271
CHAPTER XVIII.
Of honour in the United States and in democratic communities	274
CHAPTER XIX.
Why so many ambitious men, and so little lofty ambition, are to be found in the United States	290