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audience. But as I listened to the admirable address given 

 by my old college mate, Mr. Justice Brewer, when the 

 honors of the university were conferred upon the Presi 

 dent, the Secretary of State, and so many distinguished 

 representatives from all parts of the world, it was a satis 

 faction to me, after all, that I could enjoy it quietly, with 

 no sense of responsibility, and could, indeed, rest and be 

 thankful. 



As to my own personal history, there came at this time 

 an event which could not but please me : the Royal Acad 

 emy of Sciences at Berlin chose me as one of its foreign 

 honorary members. It was a tribute of the sort for which 

 I cared most, especially because it brought me into closer 

 relations with leaders in science and literature whom I 

 had so long admired. 



To finish the chronicle of that period, I may add that, 

 on my return from America, being invited to Potsdam for 

 the purpose, I gave the Emperor the very hearty message 

 which the President had sent him, and that, during this 

 interview and the family dinner which followed it, he 

 spoke most appreciatively and intelligently of the Presi 

 dent, of the recent victory for good government in the 

 city of New York, of the skill shown by Americans in 

 great works of public utility, and especially of the re 

 markable advances in the development of our navy. 



One part of this conversation had a lighter cast. At 

 the close of that portion of the communication from the 

 President which referred to various public affairs came 

 a characteristic touch in the shape of an invitation to 

 hunt in the Rocky Mountain regions: it was the simple 

 message of one healthy, hearty, vigorous hunter to an 

 other, and was to the effect that the President especially 

 envied the Emperor for having shot a whale, but that if 

 his Majesty would come to America he should have the 

 best possible opportunity to add to his trophies a Rocky 

 Mountain lion, and that he would thus be the first monarch 

 to kill a lion since Tiglath-Pileser, whose exploit is shown 

 on the old monuments of Assyria. The hearty way in 



