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home of Gilbert White ; to the graves of Gray, Thackeray, and others. A 

 critic of Carlyle at Brighton. Cambridge ; interesting papers regarding the 

 American Revolution. Lord Aberdare s story of Frederick the Great and a 

 British minister. Hermit life in London ; work at the British Museum. 

 Journey through Italy and Egypt with Willard Fiske ; effect of Egyptian 

 and other Eastern experiences on me ; five weeks on the Nile ; Brugsch Bey s 

 account of his discovery of the royal mummies ; my visit to Artin Pasha and 

 the great Technical School of Cairo. Dinner with the Khedive ; my curious 

 blunder. American and English missionaries in Cairo and Alexandria ; 

 Dr. Grant s lecture on the Egyptian Trinities. Mr. Nimr ; his scientific and 

 other activities in Egypt. My enjoyment of Saracenic architecture. Revela 

 tion to me of the connection between Egyptian and Greek architecture. Dis 

 appointment in the work of missionaries in Mohammedan countries. Stay 

 in Athens. Professor Waldstein. The American School of Archaeology. 

 Excursions with Walker Fearne and Professor Mahaffy. A talk with the 

 Greek prime minister. A function at the cathedral. Visit to Mars Hill on 

 Good Friday. To Constantinople. Our minister, Mr. Straus. Discussions 

 of art by Hamdi Bey and of literature by Sir William White. Revelations 

 of history and architecture in Constantinople. St. Sophia. Return to Paris. 

 The Exposition of 1889. The American &quot; commission of experts &quot; ; its good 

 and bad sides. Great improvement in American art. Sargent and Melchers. 

 Tributes, in Paris, to Lafayette and Camille Desmoulins. Walks and talks 

 with Senator Gibson; our journey together to Homburg and Belgium . . .428 



CHAPTER LV. MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, SCANDINAVIA, RUSSIA, 

 ITALY, LONDON, AND BERLIN 1892-1897 



My stay of two years in America. Lectures at the University of Pennsyl 

 vania. Archbishop Ryan s Latin pun. The Mohonk Conference and Presi 

 dent Hayes. Excursion with Andrew Carnegie to Mexico, California, and 

 Oregon. Meetings with Cornell students. Cathedral of Mexico. Our recep 

 tion by President Porfirio Diaz and his ministers. Beauty of California in 

 spring. Its two universities. My relations with Stanford ; pleasure in this 

 visit to it ; character of its buildings ; my lectures there. Visit to Salt Lake 

 City. To the Chicago Exposition buildings. The University of Chicago and 

 its work. My appointment as minister to St. Petersburg. My arrival 

 there on November 4, 1892. A vacation visit to the Scandinavian countries. 

 The University and Cathedral of Upsala. Journey through the Swedish 

 canals and lakes. Gothenburg. Swedish system of dealing with the sale of 

 intoxicating liquors ; its happy results. Throndheim ; cathedral ; evidences 

 of mediaeval piety and fraud. Impression made by Sweden and Norway. 

 New evolution of human folly in Norway. The Ethnographic Museum at 

 Copenhagen. Moscow revisited. Muscovite ideas of trade. My visit to Tol 

 stoi. Resignation of my legation at St. Petersburg. Italy revisited. Stay 

 in Palermo. The Church of St. Josaphat ; identity of this saint with Buddha; 

 my talk regarding him with the Commendatore Marzo. Visit to the Cathe 

 dral of Monreale. The mediaeval idea of creation as revealed in its mosaics. 

 The earthquake at Florence ; our experiences of it ; its effects in the town. 

 Return to America. Conversation with Holman Hunt in London. Visits to 

 sundry American universities ; my addresses before their students ; reasons 

 for publicly discussing &quot; The Problem of High Crime &quot; in our country. The 

 Venezuelan Commission. My appointment in May, 1897, as ambassador to 

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