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

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.

Sherman, Gen. W. T., Visit at Zurich, 58; at Berne, 61; I visit his home in Washington, 68; Mrs. Sherman, 67; letter from her, 104; takes me to see Mr. Blaine, 300; invites me to his home in St. Louis, 275; my article on the March to the Sea, 276; life in the Sherman home, 277; conversations with the General, 276; gives me his army badge, 280; in New York, 288; his immense popularity with the people, 289; death of Mrs. Sherman, 296; at reunion of Army of Tennessee, 297; his sickness and death, 301, 302; speeches in the Senate, 302; his funeral, 302.

Letters from Gen. Sherman: Franco-German War, 29 Four letters as to his coming abroad, 54, 76 Loss of the “Atlantic”, 80 Thiers, 87 Letter, 93 Cuba, 96 Too Many Commanders, 102 War Histories, 103, 283, 292 Negro Question, 109 Writing His Memoirs, 109 Prussian Army Maneuvers, 118 Confiscation by Taxes, 147 Confederates More Popular than Union Men, 163 Ready to Surrender, 163 About Italy, 190 Grant and the Presidency, 192 Politics, 193 His Son “Tom”, 198 The Duke of Wellington, 212 Assassination of President Garfield, 213, 214 Science of War, 213 The Mississippi Valley, 222 Himself and the Presidency, 223 Retirement from the army, 233 His “Flaming Sword”, 236 The Presidency, 237 Views of Rome, 258 Politics, 259 Party Stronger than Patriotism, 271 Farms, 272 Taxes, 272, 282 Money Lending and Taxes, 273 “Keep Out of Debt”, 273 Memoirs, 275, 298 Grant’s Book, 283 Newspapers, 285 Exhibited Like a Circus, 289 No Union Man Left in Office Abroad, 290 The Magazines, 289, 291 March to the Sea, 292 General Wolseley, 293 Late Rebels Getting Control, 293 Sheridan Dying, 294 At Columbus, 295 Mrs. Sherman’s Death, 296

Tell, William, 50; a relic from Tell’s chapel, 50

Terry, C. T., 64

Tilden-Hayes Contest, 125

Tilton, Rollin, 265, 267

Treves, 185

Twain, Mark, in Munich, 160 At the Artists’ Club, 161 Conversations with him, 160

Vedder, Elihu, 265

Victor, Emanuel, 101

Wagner, Richard, Life at Zurich, 141

Walton, Minnie, 113

“Wangensbach”, 106

War between France and Germany, 28

Washburne, E. B., 64

Willi, Dr., 141

Wilson, Senator Jas. F., 299; Blaine’s regard for him, 300; secures my reappointment, to Switzerland, 303.

Wood, Shakspeare, 269

Zurich, 20, 21; Mob at, 32, 114