The author has embodied in nervous and somewhat exclamatory English his impressions of American life, letters and manners. On most every page of the book lie the marks of the Latin habit of mind. There is no median line for S. C. de Soissons; for his enthusiasms are occasionally riotous and his critical observations sometimes intemperate. The volume is, however, on the whole, exceptionally appreciative of our democratic institutions, and the people (especially the fair sex) seem to have pleased the confident and courtly Parisian. This slender work is not, and does not pretend to be, a serious contribution to the expanding literature on the subject; it is not philosophical, thorough and authoritative, in the sense of Professor Brice's volumes. But, within its measure, the book justifies reading. The style is graphic, and the contents of the volume, to speak after the manner of the metaphysician, is not open to the fatal charge of dullness. Its sparkling pages catch the eye at once, and the severest strictures of the author tail to ruffle the good humor of the reader.
–Book News, Vol. 14 [1896]