The University of Michigan comprises the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Department of Medicine and Surgery, the Department of Law, the School of Pharmacy, the Homoeopathic Medical College, and the College of Dental Surgery. Each department has its special Faculty of Instruction. I count 118 professors on the staff of the different faculties. The library contains 70,041 volumes, 14,626 unbound brochures, and 514 maps and charts. The University also possesses beautiful laboratories, museums, an astronomical observatory, collections, workshops of all sorts, a lecture hall capable of accommodating over two thousand people, art studios, etc., etc. Almost every school has a building of its own, so that the University is like a little busy town. No visit that I have ever paid to a public institution interested me so much as the short one paid to the University of Michigan yesterday. * * * * * Dined this evening with Mr. W. H. Brearley, editor of the Detroit _Journal_. Mr. Brearley thinks that the Americans, who received from France such a beautiful present as the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," ought to present the mother country of General Lafayette with a token of her gratitude and affection, and he has started a national subscription to carry out his idea. He has already received support, moral and substantial. I can assure him that nothing would touch the hearts of the French people more than such a tribute of gratitude and friendship from the other great republic. * * * * * In the evening I had a crowded house in the large lecture hall of the Young Men's Christian Association. After the lecture, I met an interesting Frenchman residing in Detroit. "I was told a month ago, when I paid my first visit to Detroit, that there were twenty-five thousand French people living here," I said to him. "The number is exaggerated, I believe," he replied, "but certainly we are about twenty thousand." "I suppose you have French societies, a French Club?" I ventured. He smiled. "The Germans have," he said, "but we have not. We have tried many times to found French clubs in this city, so as to establish friendly intercourse among our compatriots, but we have always failed." "How is that?" I asked. "Well, I don't know. They all wanted to be presidents, or vice-presidents. They quarreled among themselves." "When six Frenchmen meet to start a society," I said, "one will be president, two vice-presidents, one secretary, and the other assistant-secretary. If the sixth cannot obtain an official position, he will resign and go about abusing the other five." "That's just what happened."