INDEX

A

Agassiz, Alexander, in college, 287; leads to the adoption

of crimson as the Harvard colour, 289; as captain of

industry, 289; as scientist, 290; as philanthropist, 293

Agassiz, Louis, in 1851, 283; as scientist and teacher, 284;

his strength and limitations, 287

Alcott, A. Bronson, at Concord, 249

Alcott, Louisa M., in young womanhood, 237; as writer for

children, 238

Andrew, John A., Governor of Massachusetts, 22; his

speech to the selectmen, 24

Antioch College, in the sixties, 67; dramatics at, 71

B

Bancroft, George, at Berlin, 162; his love for roses, 165;

at Washington, 166; as a historical path-breaker, 167

Banks, N. P., a pathetic figure, his rise and fall, 38

Barlow, Francis C., in college, 57; as a soldier, 61; after

the war, 65

Bartlett, W. P., as a soldier, 54

Battle-fields, as places of interest, 316

Berlin, in 1870, 110

Brooks, Phillips, as a youth, 255; in comic opera, 257; at

the Harvard Commemoration, 260; his breadth of

spirit, 261; at Lowell's funeral, 262

Bryce, James, his home in London, 194

Buffalo, in 1840, 1

Bunsen, the chemist, at Heidelberg, 266

Butler, B. F., at New Orleans, 41

C

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 198

Churchill, Winston, 200

Clark, James B., of Mississippi, 54

Concord, the town of, 233

Cox, Jacob D., 34

Curtius, Ernst, at Berlin, 206

D

Dancer, the, at the Königs-See, 310; at Salzburg, 313

Douglas, Stephen A., in his prime, 6; supports Lincoln in

1861, 8

Dramatics, at Antioch College, 71; in the schools of England, 80

in the schools of France, 76; in the schools of Germany, 72

E

Eliot, President C. W., as an oarsman, 223 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, in his prime, 246; his hospitality, 248; and Walt Whitman, 250; in old age, 253 Eupeptic musings, 332 Everett, Edward, his conservatism, 16; as an off-hand speaker, 17

F

Fillmore, Millard, as a friend, 2; signs the Fugitive Slave

Bill, 3; effects of the measure, 3; his home-life, 4;

with Lincoln at church, 5

Fiske, John, in youth, 168 and Mary Hemenway, 169; the

"Extension of Infancy," 170; his love for music, 174;

in social life, 175; at Petersham, 178

France, in war-time, 151

Francis Joseph, the Emperor, 141

Franciscan, the, at Salzburg, 307

Frederick, the Emperor, 139

Frederick the Great, his statue, 110; his sepulchre, 131

Freeman, Edward A., in America, 185; at Somerleaze, 186

G

Gardiner, Samuel R., in London, 181; at Bromley, 183

Garnett, Sir Richard, at the British Museum, 179

Germany, in 1870, 108

Gladstone, W. E., in 1886, 200

Goethe and Schiller, their graves, 129

Grant, U. S., his greatest conquest, 28

Gray, Asa, in the Botanic Garden, 278; in the class-room,

279; as a lecturer, 281; his services to science, 282

Grenadier, the young, of Potsdam, 144; of Weimar, 145

Grey, Mr. William, see Stamford.

Grimm, the brothers, their graves, 128

Grimm, Hermann, at Berlin, 212

H

Harrison, W. H., the campaign of 1840,1

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Concord, 239; at Brook Farm,

240; as a ghost-seer, 242; as literary artist, 243

Heidelberg, in 1870, 204

Helmholtz, the scientist, at Heidelberg, 268

Hohenzollern, the line of, 132

Hollis, 8; at Harvard, 161

Holmes, O. W., as an oarsman, 223; his versatility and

wit, 224; his deeper moods, 226

Home-life, in Germany in 1870, 124

Howard, O. O., at Gettysburg, 47

K

Kirchoff, the physicist, at Heidelberg, 265

L

Lepsius, the Egyptologist, 209

Lexington, Va., graves of R. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson

at, 325

Lincoln, Abraham, at church, 5

Longfellow, H. W., in 1851, 218; the incubation of Hiawatha, 225;

memorial service for, 221

Lowell, Charles R., as a soldier, 55

Lowell, James Russell, in his prime, 227; his Yankee story,

227; his Commemoration Ode, 229; his funeral, 232

Ludwig, King of Bavaria, 143

Luther, Martin, his grave at Wittenberg, 130

M

Mann, Horace, as an inspirer, 67

Meade, George G., at the Harvard Commemoration, 29

Militarism, in Germany, 111

Mommsen, Theodor, at Berlin, 209

Munich, in 1870, 148

Museum, the Royal, at Berlin, 121

N

New Wrinkle at Sweetbrier, 71

Newcomb, Simon, as a youth, 271; his parentage, 272; as

an astronomer, 274; his last years, 276

Norman, Sir Henry, 197

P

Paris, in war-time, 152

Parliament, in 1886, 195

Pope, John, a pathetic figure, 42

R

Ranke, Leopold von, 207

S

Saxton, Rufus, at Port Royal, S. C., 48

Schenkel, Daniel, 211

Schools, in Russia, 116

Sedan, The débâcle at, 159

Seward, William H., his Plymouth oration, 13; his too

careless cigar, 14; the Alaska purchase, 15

Sheridan, Philip H., 28

Sherman, T. W., at Port Royal, S. C., 50

Sherman, W. T., in private life, 30; at dinner with, 31;

and John Fiske, 32; his funeral, 34

Slocum, Henry W., and Samuel J. May, 45

Smith, Goldwin, at Niagara, 191; his memorial stone at

Cornell, 192

Stamford, the Earl of, encountered on the Mississippi,

296; as a household guest, 301; a high-born

philanthropist, 304

Stevens, Isaac I., 52

Sumner, Charles, his fine presence, 18; as a youth, 19; a

conversation with, 21; and John A. Andrew, 24; his

strength and weakness, 26

Switzerland, in 1870, 150

T

Taft, W. H., in boyhood, 34

Thoreau, Henry D., in his early time, 235

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too," 2

Treitschke, von, at Heidelberg, 205

U

Uhlan, the young, of Erfurt, 145

Union, value of its triumph in the Civil War, 327

Universities, of Germany, in 1870, 119

V

Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia, 139

W

Webster, Daniel, his last speech in Faneuil Hall, 10; his

"big way," 11; his "Liberty and Union, now and

forever," 12

Weimar, the young grenadier of, 145

West Pointers and civilians in the Civil War, 33

Whitman, Walt, and Emerson, 250

Wilhelm der Grosse, Kaiser, 138

Wilhelm II., Kaiser, 139

Wilson, James H., 49

Winsor, Justin, as youth and man, 167

Winthrop, Robert C., his ability and conservatism, 17; as

master of the feast, 18

Wright, H. G., 57