"Every impartial reader must confess, that for so young a man, Mr. Willis has done much to promote the reputation of American literature. His position at present is surrounded with every incentive to a noble ambition. With youth and health to sustain him under labor; with much knowledge of the world acquired by travel and observation, to draw upon; with a mature style, and a hand practised in various forms of composition, Mr. Willis's genius ought to take a wider and higher range than it has ever done before. We trust we shall meet him again, ere long, in the paths of literature; and we trust that he will take it kindly, if we express the hope, that he will lay aside those tendencies to exaggeration, and to an unhealthy tone of sentiment, which mar the beauty of some of his otherwise most agreeable books."
Getting under Way--The Gulf Stream--Aspect of the Ocean-- Formation of a Wave--Sea Gems--The Second Mate, 11
A Dog at Sea--Dining, with a High Sea--Sea Birds--Tandem of Whales--Speaking a Man-of-War--Havre, 18
Havre--French Bed-room--The Cooking--Chance Impressions, 25
Pleasant Companion--Normandy--Rouen--Eden of Cultivation--St. Denis--Entrance to Paris--Lodgings--Walk of Discovery--Palais Royal, 30
Gallery of the Louvre--Greenough--Feeling as a Foreigner-- Solitude in the Louvre--Louis Philippe--The Poles--Napoleon II, 40
Taglioni--French Acting--French Applause--Leontine Fay, 48
Lelewel--Pére La Chaise--Pauvre Marie--Versailles--The Trianons--Josephine's Boudoir--Time and Money at Paris--Wives and Fuel--One Price Shops, 53
Mr. Cooper--Mr. Greenough--Fighting Animals--The Dog Pit-- Fighting Donkey--Sporting Englishmen, 63
Malibran--Paris at a Late Hour--Glass Gallery--Cloud and Sunshine--General Romarino--Parisian Students--Tumult Ended, 70
French Children--Royal Equipages--French Driving--City Riding--Parisian Picturesque--Beggar's Deception--Genteel Beggars, 78
Madame Mars--Franklin's House--Ball for the Poor--Theatrical Splendor--Louis Philippe--Duke of Orleans--Young Queen of Portugal--Don Pedro--Close of the Ball, 86
Champs Elysées--Louis Philippe--Literary Dinner--Bowring and others--The Poles--Dr. Howe's Mission, 96
Club Gambling House--Frascati's--Female Gambler, 103