Chapter I: Preface

These Memories were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the _New York Tribune_. This may be evident enough from the way in which some subjects are dealt with. But they must stand in great part as they were written since the book is published both in London and New York.

They are, in some slight degree, autobiographical, but only so far as is necessary to explain my relations with those men and women of whom I have written, or with the great journal, the _New York Tribune_, I so long served. But they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met, and with events of which I had some personal knowledge. There is no attempt at a consecutive story.

LONDON, December, 1910.

Contents

CHAPTER I

New England in 1850--Daniel Webster

CHAPTER II

Massachusetts Puritanism--The Yale Class of 1853

CHAPTER III

Yale Professors--Harvard Law School

CHAPTER IV

How Massachusetts in 1854 Surrendered the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns

CHAPTER V

The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr

CHAPTER VI

A Visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson

CHAPTER VII

Emerson in England--English Traits--Emerson and Matthew Arnold

CHAPTER VIII

A Group of Boston Lawyers--Mr. Olney and Venezuela

CHAPTER IX

Wendell Phillips

CHAPTER X

Wendell Phillips and the Boston Mobs

CHAPTER XI

Wendell Phillips--Governor Andrew--Phillips's Conversion

CHAPTER XII

William Lloyd Garrison--A Critical View

CHAPTER XIII

Charles Sumner--A Private View

CHAPTER XIV

Experiences as Journalist during the Civil War

CHAPTER XV

Civil War--General McClellan--General Hooker

CHAPTER XVI

Civil War--Personal Incidents at Antietam

CHAPTER XVII

A Fragment of Unwritten Military History

CHAPTER XVIII

The New York Draft Riots in 1863--Notes on Journalism

CHAPTER XIX

How The Prussians after Sadowa Came Home to Berlin

CHAPTER XX

A Talk with Count Bismarck in 1866

CHAPTER XXI

American Diplomacy in England

CHAPTER XXII

Two Unaccredited Ambassadors

CHAPTER XXIII

Some Account of a Revolution in International Journalism

CHAPTER XXIV

Holt White's Story of Sedan and How it Reached the "New York Tribune"

CHAPTER XXV

Great Examples of War Correspondence

CHAPTER XXVI

A Parenthesis

CHAPTER XXVII

"Civil War?"--Incidents in the 'Eighties--Sir George Trevelyan--Lord Barrymore

CHAPTER XXVIII

Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Alaska Boundary

CHAPTER XXIX

Annexing Canada--Lady Aberdeen--Lady Minto

CHAPTER XXX

Two Governors-General, Lord Minto and Lord Grey

CHAPTER XXXI

Lord Kitchener--Personal Traits and Incidents

CHAPTER XXXII

Sir George Lewis--King's Solicitor and Friend--A Social Force

CHAPTER XXXIII

Mr. Mills--A Personal Appreciation and a Few Anecdotes

CHAPTER XXXIV

Lord Randolph Churchill--Being Mostly Personal Impressions

CHAPTER XXXV

Lord Glenesk and "The Morning Post"

CHAPTER XXXVI

Queen Victoria at Balmoral--King Edward at Dunrobin--Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton--Other Anecdotes

CHAPTER XXXVII

Famous Englishmen Not in Politics

CHAPTER XXXVIII

Lord St. Helier--American and English Methods--Mr. Benjamin

CHAPTER XXXIX

Mrs. Jeune, Lady Jeune, and Lady St. Helier

CHAPTER XL

Lord and Lady Arthur Russell and the "Salon" in England

CHAPTER XLI

The Archbishop of Canterbury--Queen Alexandra

CHAPTER XLII

A Scottish Legend

CHAPTER XLIII

A Personal Reminiscence of the Late Emperor Frederick

CHAPTER XLIV

I. Edward the Seventh as Prince of Wales--Personal Incidents

II. Prince of Wales and King of England--The Personal Side

III. As King--Some Personal and Social Incidents and Impressions

Index

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