Twenty Years in Europe: A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. ShermanByers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
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Twenty Years in Europe: A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. Sherman
Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
Europe -- Description and travel
Grant, Gen. U. S., at White House, 71;
visits Switzerland, 128;
conversations at Lake Luzern, 128;
simplicity of life, 131;
with the Swiss President, 134;
banquet to him at Bern, 134;
and at Zurich, 149;
recollections of him in the War, 145;
at Champion Hills, 145;
his log cabin near St. Louis, 280;
letter from him, 288.
Harrison, President, Interview with, 299
Harte, Bret, 170;
letters from, 171, 172;
visits Bocken, 174;
visit the Rigi together, 177;
and Obstalden, 178;
more letters, 183, 185, 187.
Hauk, Minnie, 107
Holidays at the Consulate, 115
Hortense, Queen of Holland, 80
“Home, Sweet Home,” funeral of author, 230
Humbert, King of Italy, 247
Hurricane at Christmas, 124
Ibsen at Rome, 257
Icebergs, 121
Immigration Difficulties, 195
Indians in Switzerland, 218, 228
Inn, an English, 16
Ireland, a foot trip through, 206
Ischia Destroyed, 250
Kaiser, the Old, 229
Keller, Ferdinand, 241
Keller, Gottfried, 25
King, Horatio, Literary Evenings in Washington, 122
Kinkel, Gottfried, his death and funeral, 219
Letter from Mrs. Kinkel, 220
And from Carl Schurz, 219
Lake Dwellers of Switzerland, 241
Leo XIII., Pope, presented to him, 261
Lions, Baby, 227
Liszt, Franz, at Zurich, 141
At Rome, 260
London, Sunday quiet, fog, 17
Visit in 1875, 111
Longfellow, Henry W., 200
Lucca, Pauline, 142
Lugano, 217
Magazines, Writing for, 139
Margaret, Queen of Italy, 252
McDonald, Geo., at Washington, 72
Miller, Joaquin, at Rome, 99
Moleschott, Roman Senator, 269
Moselle River, Our trip there, 184
Motley, Jno. L., 18
Napoleon III., his boyhood in Switzerland, 80
North American Review, Write articles for, 276
Obstalden, an Alpine Hamlet, 119
Storm in the Alps, 119
Ocean Voyages, then and now, 304
Orsini Café, distinguished people met there, 25
Paris, Horrors of the Commune, 34
Parliament in the Open Air, 311
Pierpont, Edwards, Governor, 268
Pierpont, Secretary of Legation, 265
Polish Patriot and His Castle on Lake Zurich, 38
Pope Leo XIII., 261
Porta Nigra, Ruins of, 185
Rhine, the Source of, 89
Rigi, A Strange Experience, 132
Robert, Christopher, 123
Rogers, Randolph, 264
Rome, Our Life in, 246
St. Bernard, Dogs there, 38
St. Gall, Description of it, 306
Life there, 306
Salm-Salm, Princess, 310
Sargent, A. A., Minister to Berlin, 225
“Schiller,” The Wreck of, 127
Scherr, Johannes, 224
Scotland, Visit to Burns’ Home, 305
“Clerkland”, 305
Sherman, Gen.; see below.
Smalley, Geo. W., 111
Smith, Dr., Author of “America”, 203
Stein on the Rhine, Castle of, 165
Story, W. W., 263
Switzerland, cheap living there, 21;
new Constitution, 101;
I write a book on Switzerland, 108.
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