“We prefer commending the book as beyond question the most amusing of the season,
and we commend it without hesitation, because the moral is an excellent one.”

“With unparalleled candor he has here unfolded the particulars of the intrigue, taking
the whole world into his confidence—`bearing his heart on his sleeve for daws to peck
at'—and, in the dearth of public amusements, presenting a piquant nine days' wonder
for the recreation of society.”

“The work is very amusing, and it is written in such a vein that one cannot refrain
from frequent bursts of laughter, even when the Chevalier is in positions which might
claim one's sympathy.”

“A positive autobiography, by a man of acknowledged fashion, and an associate of
nobles and princes, telling truly how he courted and was coquetted by an heiress in high
life, is likely to be as popular a singularity in the way of literature as could well be thought
of.”

“The ladies are sure to devour it. It is better and more exciting than any modern
romance, as it is a detail of facts, and every page proves conclusively that the plain,
unvarnished tale of truth is often stranger than fiction.”

“The book, therefore, has all the attractions of a tilt of knight-errants—with this addition,
that one of the combatants is a woman—a species of heart-endowed Amazon.”

“If you read the first chapter of the volume, you are in for `finis,' and can no more
stop without the consent of your will than the train of cars can stop without the consent
of the engine.”

“Seriously, there is not so original, piquant and singular a book in American literature
its author is a sort of cross between Fielding, Chesterfield, and Rochefoucault.”

“With the exception of Rossean's Confessions, we do not remember ever to have heard
of any such self-anatomization of love and the lover.”

“The book has cost us a couple of nights' sleep; and we have no doubt it has cost its
author and principal subject a good many more.”

“The work possesses all the charm and fascination of a continuous romance.”