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Byron and Voltaire — Geneva and Mont Blanc — An Ascent of the Brevent — Over the Simplon Road and through the Gorge of Gondo — On the Italian Slope |
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| The New York of Twenty Years Ago — Social and Geographical Changes — Grace Church and "Old Brown" — Three of New York's Distinguished Hostesses — Mrs. Roberts's Dinner to President and Mrs. Hayes — Mr. Evarts and his Donkey Story — Travers and Jerome — Bret Harte — George Boker and Calvert — Our School for Scandal | 177 |
| Second Visit to London — A Day in the House of Commons — London in 1885 — The Ascot Races and Dr. Holmes — My Presentation at Court and a State Ball at Buckingham Palace — A Supper with Irving at the Beefsteak Club — Mr. Gladstone and the Chapel Royal — A Dinner with Sir John Millais — Mr. Browning, Sir Frederic Leighton, Mrs. Procter, and Du Maurier | 201 |
| My Continental Note-book — The Praise of Paris — Meissonier and Politics — The Salon of 1886 — "Varnishing Day" — Sara Bernhardt's "Theodora" — Nice and Monte Carlo — La Duchesse de Pomar, Lady Caithness — A Sad Loss to the American Colony | 222 |
| Imperial Rome — The American Colony — W. W. Story, Bishop Whipple, and the Terrys — My Presentation at the Italian Court — A Ball at the Quirinal — Lord Houghton — Two Valentines — Modern Rome — The Vatican Library and Gardens | 239 |
| The Queen's Jubilee — London in Gala Dress — The Queen's Garden Party — A Dash into Holland and the Low Countries — Dikes and Ditches — Picture-galleries and Windmills — Rotterdam and Amsterdam — The Zuyder Zee and a Day at Marken — Forgotten Bruges and Prosperous Ghent — Antwerp and The Hague — Ostend the Frivolous | 265 |
