286 pp. Yellow cloth with gilt titles and decor on front board and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges. With numerous reproductions of portraits and miniatures of men and women prominent in colonial life and in the early days of the republic. CONTENTS: A Colonial Salon; Republican Drawing-Rooms; Life in the Quaker Capital; Salons Gay and Grave; Life in the Federal City; An Early Art Centre; Mrs. Rush and Her Salon.