| CHAPTER I. |
| 1869. |
| PAGE. |
| A Little White Card with President Grant’s Name on It?--?A Voyage to Europe?--?An English Inn?--?Hear Gladstone Speak?--?John Bright and Disraeli. | 15 |
| CHAPTER II. |
| 1869. |
| In Switzerland?--?The Alps?--?Embarrassment in Not Knowing the Language?--?Celebrated Exiles Meet in a Certain CafÉ?--?Brentano?--?Wagner?--?Kinkel?--?Scherr?--?Keller and Others. | 20 |
| CHAPTER III. |
| 1870. |
| In the Orsini CafÉ?--?Great News from France?--?What the Exiles Think?--?Letter from General Sherman?--?I Get Permission to Go and Look at the War?--?In the Snow of the Juras?--?Arrested?--?The Surrender of the 80,000?--?Zurich in the Hands of a Mob?--?Friendly Hint. | 27 |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| 1871. |
| The Paris Horrors?--?Some Excursions with Literary People?--?Beer Gardens?--?A Characteristic Funeral?--?Funeral of a Poet’s Child?--?Caroline Bauer, the Actress?--?A Polish Patriot?--?Celebrating the Fourth of July at Castle Rapperschwyl?--?The St. Bernard?--?The Mules and Dogs?--?On a Swiss Farm?--?For Burning Chicago. | 34 |
| CHAPTER V. |
| 1872. |
| Louis Blanc, the Statesman?--?His Novel Courtship?--?His Appearance?--?Invites Us to Paris?--?Just Miss Victor Hugo?--?His Speech at Madame Blanc’s Grave?--?Letter from Louis Blanc?--?Alabama Arbitrators?--?See Gambetta and Jules Favre. | 42 |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| 1872. |
| William Tell?--?The Rigi in the Good Old Times?--?Pilatus?--?Rose Bushes for Fuel. | 48 |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| 1872. |
| General Sherman Visits Us at Zurich?--?Letters from Him?--?Swiss Officers Entertain Him?--?His Lake Excursion?--?He Explains His Greatest Campaign to Them?--?He is Entertained at the Swiss Capital?--?Letter from General Dufour. | 52 |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| 1872. |
| Letter from General Sherman?--?Visit America?--?Sands of Bremen?--?Storms at Sea?--?Elihu Washburne?--?Banquet to Him on Ship?--?I am a Guest at the Sherman Home?--?Mrs. Sherman?--?Arrange to Take Miss Sherman to Europe?--?Meet Mr. Blaine?--?My Song Sung in the Sherman Home?--?Conversations with Sherman?--?Meet President Grant?--?How I Happened to Be in the Rebel Army Once?--?Letters from General Sherman. | 61 |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| 1873. |
| Letter from General Sherman?--?Loss of the “Atlantic”?--?The Boyhood Home of Napoleon III and of His Mother, Queen Hortense?--?A Companion Tells of the Prince’s Pranks and Studies?--?Josephine’s Harp?--?Arenaberg Full of Napoleon Relics?--?We Have a Long Interview with the Ex-Empress Eugenie?--?Letter from Sherman?--?Speaks of Thiers. | 77 |
| CHAPTER X. |
| 1873. |
| The Source of the Rhine?--?Strange Villages There?--?A Republic Four Hundred Years Old?--?The “Gray League”?--?“The League of the House of God”?--?Louis Philippe’s Hiding Place?--?A Tour in the Valley of the Inn?--?Letter from General Sherman?--?Regrets His Career Seems Over. | 86 |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| 1874. |
| Sherman on Cuba?--?Visit Italy?--?Garibaldi’s Wonderful Reception at Rome?--?The Artist Freeman?--?First American Painter to Live in Rome?--?Rome in 1840?--?See Victor Emmanuel?--?Joaquin Miller?--?His Conversation and Appearance?--?New Swiss Constitution?--?More Letters from General Sherman?--?Too Many Commanders in Washington for Him?--?Will Go to St. Louis?--?His Views of War Histories. | 95 |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| 1875. |
| Letters from Mrs. Sherman and the General?--?He Tells Me He is Writing His Life?--?The Negro Question?--?A Chateau by Lake Zurich?--?I Write a Book on Switzerland?--?Also Write a Play?--?A City of Dead Kings?--?Go to London?--?Meet Colonel Forney?--?Dinner at George W. Smalley’s?--?Kate Field?--?Visit Boucicault?--?Conversations with the Newer Shakespeare?--?The Beautiful Minnie Walton?--?Breakfast at Her Home?--?Professor Fick?--?His Home Built in the Old Roman Wall?--?Lectures?--?Holidays at the Consulate?--?Mrs. Congressman Kelley?--?A Student Commerz?--?Beer Drinking?--?Dukes of the Republic?--?Duels?--?Letter from General Sherman?--?Prussian Army Maneuvers. | 104 |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| 1876. |
| Storm in the Alps?--?Mr. Benjamin?--?Kate Sherwood Bonner?--?Icebergs?--?A Scotch Poet?--?Horatio King’s L
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