We wait, as directed, under the trees behind the castle (though it is no castle at all) for pretty soon the great man will come down the garden walk. Miss Witt, who has an enormous bouquet of flowers for him (she has given him flowers before), will approach him first, and then the rest of us. There come his two big Danish dogs down the path now. In a moment they are followed by a powerful looking old man who carries a big club of a cane, and wears a great slouch hat of felt. He knows what the young lady and the flowers mean very quickly, and his strong, marked face is soon in smiles. We are all presented. I speak to him in English, but he says, “Please speak German. There was a time when I spoke English, but that is almost gone.” I looked at him closely, when others were talking. His great, wrinkled, seamed face looked as powerful as his herculean frame. I could not help thinking to myself, here stands the man who overthrew Louis Napoleon, and here is he who once ruefully said, “The lives of eighty thousand human beings would have been saved were it not for me.” He had a few kind words for all of us, and Madame Semper he remembered well. But he was getting old, and seemed on the point of feebleness; his great race was done. His dogs rubbed against his legs and looked at us as if they wanted us to stay away from their master. Shortly he lifted his great broad hat, saying: “My wife is waiting for me at breakfast. I bid you good-day.” Then he turned and walked back to the castle. We had seen Bismarck. INDEX. Alabama Claims, 47 Alcott, Bronson and Louise, 201 Alps, 22 Americans, at Zurich, 115, 162 Artists, American at Munich, 157 Astor, W. W, 248 Avalanche, An, 205 Bauer, Caroline, 38 Beer Gardens, 35, 117 Berlin, Visit there, 225 Billingsgate Market, 17 Bismarck, Prince, 314 Black Forest, 165 Blaine, 199 Blanc, Louis, 44 Bocken, 49 Bonner, Kate Sherwood, 121 Boucicault, Dion, 112 Brentano, Lorenzo, 24 Bright, John, 18 Burns, Visit at home of, 305 Byron, Lord, 240 Letters about, 240 Capri, Island of, 266 Chicago Fire, 42 Christmas Night at Sea, 124 Commers of Students at Zurich, 116 Constitution, Swiss, 101 Conway, Hugh, 257 Crawford, Marion, 250 Custom House Frauds, 232 Davis, Winnie, 143 Dennison, 126 Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, 18 Duels, 117 Dufour, General, 61; Letter, 62 Elm Destroyed, 205 Eugenie, French Empress, 83 Favre, Jules, 45 Fick, Professor, 114 Field, Kate, 111 Forney, Col. Jno. W., 122 Fox Hunting, 166 Frederick, Crown Prince, 227 Freeman, Artist, 98 Frey, Emil, 232 Funeral, Swiss, 36 Of a Poet’s Child, 37 Irish, 209 Gambetta, Leon, 45 Garibaldi at Rome, 97 Gladstone, Speech by, 18 Hatred of, 238, 269 Gilmour, John, a Scotch Poet, 305