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Caste in American Society.

Society in America is not an entity. It is rather the reflection of the mood of the individual who is contemplating it, the incarnation of certain tastes, and has neither locality nor measurement. For some it possesses elasticity, for others immobility; all desire to enter where many have disappeared in an apotheosis of self-laudation, and when there, find that their circle is not society, which is ever beyond and ever narrowing.

One lady, a leader of Boston fashion, stated that, though "society" consisted of about twenty-five families, yet in the invitations to a general ball it might be safe to include from

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