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.