"The good old times of Saratoga, I believe, as of the world in general, are rapidly passing away. The time was when it was the chosen resort of none but 'nice people'. At the present day, I hear it constantly affirmed, 'the company is dreadfully mixed.' What society may have been at Saratoga when its elements were thussimple and severe, I can only vaguely and mournfully conjecture. I confine mysef to the dense, democratic, vulgar Saratoga of the current year." Henry James, Saratoga (1870)