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قراءة كتاب Twenty Years in Europe A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. Sherman
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Twenty Years in Europe A Consul-General's Memories of Noted People, with Letters From General W. T. Sherman
TWENTY YEARS IN EUROPE.
Twenty Years in Europe
A CONSUL-GENERAL’S MEMORIES
OF NOTED PEOPLE, WITH LETTERS
FROM GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN
BY
S. H. M. BYERS,
U. S. Consul-General to Switzerland and Italy,
AUTHOR OF
“Sherman’s March to the Sea,” “The Happy Isles,”
“Switzerland and the Swiss,” ETC.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
Chicago and New York:
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1900, by Rand, McNally & Co.
INSCRIBED
TO
MARGARET GILMOUR BYERS.
And favoring winds to-morrow may forsake;
But, joyous thought--O! Future! Smile or weep,
The happy years behind us none can take!
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR.
While staying in Switzerland and Italy as a consular officer, during a period of well on to twenty years, I kept a diary of my life. Without being a copy of the diary, this book is made up from its pages and from my own recollections of men, scenes, and events. It was during an interesting period, too. There were stirring times in Europe. Two great wars took place; one great empire was born; another became a republic; and the country of Victor Emmanuel changed from a lot of petty dukedoms to a free Italy. It seemed a great period everywhere, and everything of men and events jotted down at such a time would of necessity have its interest. This book is not a history--only some recollections and some letters.
Among the letters are some fifty from General Sherman, whose intimate friendship I enjoyed from the war times till the day of his death. They are printed with permission of those now interested, and they may be regarded as in a way supplementary to the series of more public letters of General Sherman printed by me in the North American Review during his lifetime. They possess the added interest that must attach to the intimate letters of friendship coming from a brilliant mind. Their publication can only help to lift the veil a little from a life that was as true and good in private as it was noble in public.
S. H. M. BYERS.
St. Helens, Des Moines.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| 1869. | |
| PAGE. | |
| A Little White Card with President Grant’s Name on It--A Voyage to Europe--An English Inn--Hear Gladstone Speak--John Bright and Disraeli. | 15 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| 1869. | |
| In Switzerland--The Alps--Embarrassment in Not Knowing the Language--Celebrated Exiles Meet in a Certain Café--Brentano--Wagner--Kinkel--Scherr--Keller and Others. | 20 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| 1870. | |
| In the Orsini Café--Great News from France--What the Exiles Think--Letter from General Sherman--I Get Permission to Go and Look at the War--In the Snow of the Juras--Arrested--The Surrender of the 80,000--Zurich in the Hands of a Mob--Friendly Hint. | 27 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| 1871. | |
| The Paris Horrors--Some Excursions with Literary People--Beer Gardens--A Characteristic Funeral--Funeral of a Poet’s Child--Caroline Bauer, the Actress--A Polish Patriot--Celebrating the Fourth of July at Castle Rapperschwyl--The St. Bernard--The Mules and Dogs--On a Swiss Farm--For Burning Chicago. | 34 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| 1872. | |
| Louis Blanc, the Statesman--His Novel Courtship--His Appearance--Invites Us to Paris--Just Miss Victor Hugo--His Speech at Madame Blanc’s Grave--Letter from Louis Blanc--Alabama Arbitrators--See Gambetta and Jules Favre. | 42 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| 1872. | |
| William Tell--The Rigi in the Good Old Times--Pilatus--Rose Bushes for Fuel. | 48 |