Zurich--Swiss Great Lovers of Music--Wagner Once Lived Here--His Singular Ways--Dr. Willi--Madame Lucca’s Villa--Liszt’s Kissing Bees--Jefferson Davis’ Daughter--A Laughable Mistake.
140 |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| 1878. |
| Some Recollections of Mine about General Grant in the War--Grant at Champion Hills--Sherman’s Letter on Confiscation by Taxation in America--Grant at Ragatz--I Give a Banquet in His Honor at Zurich. |
145 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| 1878. |
| The St. Gothard Tunnel--I Describe It for Harper’s Magazine--Its Cost--A Great Scare in the Tunnel. |
153 |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| 1879. |
| American Artists at Munich--I Meet Mark Twain--Take Him to an Artists’ Club--Conversations with Him--Beer Drinking--He Reads the Original of “What I Know about the German Language”--We Entertain the Americans at Zurich--A Letter from General Sherman--Confederates More Popular than Union Men--Sherman Ready to Surrender |
157 |
| CHAPTER XX. |
| 1879. |
| A Trip Through the Black Forest--Stein on the Rhine--A Famous Castle--“All Blown Up”--Good Roads--Fox Hunting. |
165 |
| CHAPTER XXI. |
| 1879. |
| Bret Harte--Letters from Him--Visits Us--Stay at Bocken--Conversations--Mrs. Senator Sherman--Evenings at Bocken--We All Go to the Rigi--How We Got the “Prince’s” Rooms--Harte Goes with Us to Obstalden in the Alps--Very Simple Life--A Strange Funeral--Harte Finds His Stories in a Village Inn--More Letters--We Visit the Moselle River--Finer than the Rhine--A Wonderful Castle of the Middle Ages--All Furnished and Fresh as When New--The French Did Not Find It When They Were Demolishing German Castles--An Exquisite Gothic Church Five Hundred Years Old--Wonderful Roman Ruins at Treves--More Letters from Bret Harte--A Happy Man. |
170 |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
| 1880–1881. |
| A Little Stay by the Mediterranean--Am Offered a Position in China--An Article on the Swiss Rhine--Also One on My Experiences in the Rebel Army--Two Letters from General Sherman--Grant and the Presidency--Says the Bare Narrative of My Escape from Prison Would Be an Epic--Banquet at the Legation--I Write for the New York Tribune an Exposé of How Certain European Communities Sent Paupers to the United States--Am Violently Attacked for It by Many American Journals and Reprimanded by State Department--Swiss Government Complains--Investigation Follows--I Am Justified--Letter from Sherman as to His Son Tom--Visit America--Secretary Blaine Compliments Me--The Press Changes Its Tone and New Laws Are Adopted as to Immigration in United States and Switzerland--Tribune Says Editorially, “Mr. Byers Deserves the Thanks of the American People”--A Little Visit to the Poet Longfellow, and the Alcotts; also to the Author of “America.” |
189 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| 1881. |
| Elm and All Its People Destroyed by an Avalanche--A Foot Trip in Ireland--Fenians--Red Coats--Poverty--The Queen Hooted--Out of Jail and a Hero--Muckross Abbey by Moonlight--An Irish Funeral--A Duplicate Blarney Stone--Letters from General Sherman--The Duke of Wellington--The Assassination of President Garfield. |
205 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| 1882–1883. |
| Visit Northern Italy--American Indians in Zurich--Death of the Poet Kinkel--Letters from Carl Schurz and the Poet’s Wife--Letter from Sherman as to the Bounteous Mississippi Valley--A Second Letter from Sherman--The Presidency--Conversations with Scherr, the Writer--The Poet Kinkel’s Son--His Powerful Memory--We Visit Berlin--Minister Sargent’s Trouble with Prince Bismarck over American Pork--Sargent Is Appointed to St. Petersburg--Indians Again--Baby Lions--Visit America Again--Funeral of the Author of “Home, Sweet Home”--Swiss National Exhibition--The Swiss War Minister Visits Me--We Had Been Comrades in Libby Prison--Trouble with Fraudulent Invoices--Origin of Expert System at Consulate--I Succeed in Stopping the Frauds--My Action is Reported at Washington as
|
