HYSTERIC MISALLIANCES.

One of the unpleasant facts to patriotic Americans is the success of fortune-hunting dukes, etc., in captivating American heiresses, and the tendency of certain native snobs to take satisfaction in such events. Why any self-respecting citizen of this country should see anything desirable in exchanging sovereignty in a republic for subjection, or the privilege of becoming even a highly titled subject, in a monarchy, is not self-evident in the nature of things; it is really a degradation politically and should also be socially. It becomes somewhat more mortifying, however, when these events and tendencies are regarded abroad as characteristically American, and made the subject of elaborate medico-sociologic discussion. A French medical expert has utilized and made prominent some of these American women as examples of sexual and hysteric morbidity, their prominence probbably leading him to their selection, though equally numerous instances could without question have been found among his own