Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Athonia, or the Original Four Hundred
As to the typical American girl, well, I ought to stop and not say a word; for I remember that I have read that exceptional beauty and worth stand not in need of praise. We cannot blame, nor can our young American friends here blame our nobility of England and princes and barons of other European countries for being fascinated by the debonair ways of your American girls. Many of the most in?uential women in London life today, as well as in other European capitals, in all ranks, from commoners to duchesses, were born and educated under the Stars and Stripes. And I believe it is well for the American girl to form alliances with the in?uential families Of the old world to which I have alluded. To me she appears, when thus united, as an angel of peace. In whichever land across the big pond she condescends to make her home, she will at all times use her charming, noble, loving in?uence for peace between her adopted land across the sea and her great, pow erful, free land Of her birth.'
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