Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. BOOKS BY EDITH O'SHAUGHNESSY A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE IN MEXICO. Illustrated. DIPLOMATIC DAYS. Illustrated. HARPER & BROTHERS. NEW YORK [ESTABLISHED 1817] [Illustration: HILLSIDE HOUSES AND CHURCH TOWERS IN THE ZAPATISTA COUNTRY Photograph by Ravell] DIPLOMATIC DAYS BY EDITH O'SHAUGHNESSY [MRS. NELSON O'SHAUGHNESSY] AUTHOR OF _A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico_ ILLUSTRATED HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published November, 1917 CONTENTS FOREWORD xi I First impressions of the tropics--Exotic neighbors on Page 1 shipboard--Havana--Picturesque Mayan stevedores--Vera Cruz--The journey up to Mexico City II First visit to the Embassy--Adjusting oneself to a height of Page 16 eight thousand feet in the tropics--Calle Humboldt--Mexican servants--Diplomatic dinners--Progress of Maderista forces III Mexico in full revolution--Diaz's resignation wrung from Page 32 him--Memories of the "King in Exile"--President de la Barra sworn in--Social happenings--Plan de San Luis Potosí IV First reception at Chapultepec Castle--First bull-fight--A Page 47 typical Mexican earthquake--Madero's triumphal march through Mexico City--Three days of adoration V Dinner at the Japanese Legation--The real history of the Page 61 Japanese in Mexico--Dinner at the Embassy--Coronation services for England's king--The rainy season sets in VI Speculations as to the wealth of "the Greatest Page 69 Mexican"--Fourth of July--Madero as evangelist--The German minister's first official dinner with the Maderos as the _clou_ VII The old monastery of Tepozotlan--Lively times on the Page 84 Isthmus--The Covadonga murders--The Chapultepec reception--Sidelights on Mexican housekeeping--Monte de Piedad VIII Elim's fourth birthday party--Haggling over the prices of Page 93 old Mexican frames--Zapata looms up--First glimpse of General Huerta--Romantic mining history of Mexico IX The Vírgen de los Remedios--General Bernardo Reyes--A Page 107 description of the famous ceremony of the "Grito de Dolores" at the palace X The uncertainty of Spanish adverbs--Planchette and the Page 120 destiny of the state--Madame Bonilla's watery garden-party--De la Barra's "moderation committee"--Madero's "reform platform" XI