CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

The Departure—How the Passengers Amused Themselves—Sea-sickness—Tibbitts, of Oshkosh—The Storm

17-35
CHAPTER II.

London—The Englishman—A Few Statistics—The Climate—A Red-coated Romance

18-57
CHAPTER III.

The Derby Races—Departure for the Derby—Sights and Scenes—Shows and Beggars—Betting

58-76
CHAPTER IV.

What the Londoners Quench their Thirst with—The Kind of Liquor—Tobacco—Early Closing

77-90
CHAPTER V.

How London is Amused—The London Theaters—An English Idea of a Good Time—Punch and Judy

91-100
CHAPTER VI.

Madame Tussaud—American Worthies

101-107
CHAPTER VII.

The London Lawyer—The Solicitor’s Bill

108-112
CHAPTER VIII.

English Capital—London Quacks—The London Advertiser

113-122
CHAPTER IX.

Petticoat Lane—The Home of Second-Hand—The Clothing Dealer—Diamonds—The Confiding Israelite

123-134
CHAPTER X.

The Tower—The Royal Jewels—The Horse Armory—Interesting Relics—The Beef-Eaters

137-160
CHAPTER XI.

Two English Nuisances—A Badly Dressed People—An English Hotel—The English Landlord

161-172
CHAPTER XII.

Portsmouth—Nelson’s Ship—In the Harbor—Tibbitts’ Diary

174-185
CHAPTER XIII.

Westminster Abbey—Seeing the Abbey—Warren Hastings—Epitaphs—Religious Service—A Little History

187-202
CHAPTER XIV.

The American Showman—The Trainer’s Widow—Foggerty the Zulu

203-212
CHAPTER XV.

Richmond—The Star and Garter—Down the River

213-219
CHAPTER XVI.

From London to Paris—The Custom House—Normandy—The Cathedral—On the Way to Paris

221-242
CHAPTER XVII.

A Scattering View of Paris—Drinking in Paris—Wine and Whisky—The National FÊte

243-267
CHAPTER XVIII.

Something About Parisians—French Cleanliness—The Polite French—The Disgust of Tibbitts

268-286
CHAPTER XIX.

Parisian Gamin—Interview with a Gamin—A Contented Being

287-299
CHAPTER XX.

How Paris Amuses Itself—The Grand Opera—The Wicked Mabille—Gardens other than the Mabille—Tibbitts and the Professor

300-318
CHAPTER XXI.

The Louvre—Art in the Louvre—The Commune

320-331
CHAPTER XXII.

The Palais-Royal—A Tale of the Commune—The Wisdom of Therese—The Two Lovers

332-345
CHAPTER XXIII.

French Drinking—The Water of Paris—The Mild Swash

346-351
CHAPTER XXIV.

Parisian Living—The Market Woman—Parisian Washing—Female Shop-keepers—The Career of Sam

352-369
CHAPTER XXV.

Ireland—Cork—The Jaunting Car—Another Cabin

370-383
CHAPTER XXVI.

Bantry—How My Lord Bantry Lives—The Real and the Ideal—Several Delusions—The Conversion of an Irish Lady

384-401
CHAPTER XXVII.

An Irish Mass Meeting—An Eviction—Boycotting—One Landlord who was Killed—How he was killed—Patsey’s Dead

403-518
CHAPTER XXVIII.

Some Little History—The Question of Lease—A Foiled Landlord—Bantry Village—The Boatman and Nancy

419-438
CHAPTER XXIX.

England, Ireland, Scotland—Land Troubles in England—The Royal Family—The Palace and the Workhouse—Women’s Work

439-460
CHAPTER XXX.

Paris to Geneva—A Night on the Rail—Geneva—Affecting Anecdote—Piracy on Lake Erie—The Irate Guest—Too Much Music

461-477
CHAPTER XXXI.

Switzerland—The Rhone—A Geneva Bakery—Swiss Roads—Female Climbers—Ascent of Mont Blanc—A Useful Man at Last

478-491
CHAPTER XXXII.

Chillon—Tibbitts and the Jew—On the Lake

492-501
CHAPTER XXXIII.

From Geneva over the Alps—Mountain Climbing—Legend of the Gorge—Martigny—A Swiss Cottage—Alpine Ascents

502-517
CHAPTER XXXIV.

Over the Alps—Tibbitts’ Idea—Dangers of Ascending Mt. Blanc

518-529
CHAPTER XXXV.

Going up the Mountain—The Mer de Glace—The Gorge—Something About Glaciers

530-545
CHAPTER XXXVI.

In Switzerland—Tibbitts’ Letter—Berne and Bears—Barbers

546-555
CHAPTER XXXVII.

Lake Thun and Beyond—Interlaken—Wood Carving—Geissbach

556-568
CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Lucerne and the Rigi—Up the Rigi—A Mountain Railway—The Rigi Kulm—Tell’s Chapel

569-587
CHAPTER XXXIX.

Zurich and Strasburg—Beer and Music—The Cathedral—The Wonderful Clock

588-604
CHAPTER XL.

Baden-Baden—A Few Legends—Up the Mountain—To old Schloss

605-621
CHAPTER XLI.

Heidelberg—The Great Cask—The Students

622-630
CHAPTER XLII.

Mannheim—Opera—A Treatise on Treating

631-639
CHAPTER XLIII.

Frankfort-on-the-Maine—Red Tape—Jews’ Street—Lovely Gardens

640-651
CHAPTER XLIV.

Down the Rhine—Bingen—Mouse Tower—Tibbitts’ Romance

652-663
CHAPTER XLV.

Cologne—The Cathedral—Eleven Thousand Virgins—Home

664-672

TO
Charles A. B. Shepard,
The “Poetical Bookseller,”
This book is dedicated (without permission)
as a
Tribute to a most Reliable Friend,
a Thorough Business Man, and
One whose steady devotion to everything right and proper,
and whose
hatred for everything mean and disreputable,
was never questioned by any one
who knew him.

NASBY IN EXILE.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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