“Nothing is too good for our boys”,--that was the word for the hour. It is as true now as it was then, let us remember. Besides those blessed Sunday afternoons, when the Art Association coffee made a name for itself that is known from Maine to California--we opened classes in mechanical drawing for the enlisted men, and included in the regular classes of our art school all such reservists as were able to profit by the opportunity. Meanwhile the other functions of the Art Association were maintained, and the building was a humming hive of workers every day in the week, Sundays and holidays included. Those Sunday afternoon festivities always closed with the boys singing the popular war songs,--“There’s a Long Long Trail”--“Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag”--“Tipperary”, the whole company joining in the chorus with a right good will. There are certain of those songs I can never hear without a vision of the shining faces of our boys as they sat cheek by jowl with our dainty belles, our grave social workers and clergymen, our plain workaday folk, and our summer plutocrats. The light that never was on land or sea glowed in those faces, young and old, familiar and foreign, for many nations were represented in those gatherings, as well as all classes,--Jews and Gentiles, Scandinavians, Teutons, Celts, Latins, and Slavs. One common feeling bound them all together, the love of our country, the hope of the world. If, sometimes in these post-war days, I feel a moment of doubt or fear for the future of America, to find comfort I have but to call to mind the memory of those Sunday afternoon gatherings and to listen in fancy to the strong young voices singing the familiar words: He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat! FINIS INDEX Abbott, Jere, 52 Abdin Palace, and the Khedive’s wives, 179; ball at the, 181 Abdul Hamid, Sultan, 257 Aberdeen, Lady, 235 Abolitionist, author first learns meaning of, 58 Abyssinia, war between Italy and, 275 Accoramboni, Palazzo. _See_ RUSTICUCCI, PALAZZO Acropolis, the, 193, 311 Adams, Henry, his Washington home, 337; genius for friendship, 337; and Saint-Gaudens’ bronze “Nirvana”, 337-338; and “The Education of Henry Adams”, 338; last meeting with, 338; comment on treatment of our presidents, 342; 343 Addams, Jane, 358 Aesthetic movement, height of the, in 1877, 147 Agassiz, Louis J. R., 25 “Age of Fable, The”, Bulfinch, 29 Aïdé, Hamilton, 241, 297, 299 Albani, Madame, 151 Albert, King, of Belgium, 387 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 298 Alexandria, Egypt, 176 Alger, Abbie L., a gifted woman, 24 Alger, Kitty, intimate friend and classmate, 24, 46, 56 Alger, William Rounseville, characteristics of, 24; and his “Poetry of the Orient”, 24-25; at home of, 25; preaches in Music Hall, 25 Alhambra, the, 253 “Alice in Wonderland”, Carroll, 29 Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence, home in London, 142 Alma-Tadema, Mrs. Laurence, 142