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INDEX 



ions of, by Von Sybel and Droysen, i. 

 558 



Lang, Andrew, W. s acquaintance with, 

 ii. 405 



La Rochefoucauld, Duke de, ii. 5 



Lascelles, Sir Frank, his large experience, 

 ii. 22 



Lasker, Eduard, Bismarck s treatment of, 

 i. 588 ; funeral address on, by W., i. 201, 

 589 ; resolution of Congress on the death 

 of, i. 589 



Law, James, veterinary professor at Cor 

 nell, i. 339, 369 



Lecky, William E. H., W. s talks with, ii. 

 409, 425 



Legislative bodies, American, British, 

 and French, compared, i. 577 



Leibnitz, Harnack s tribute to, ii. 179 



Leipsic Fourth of July celebration, W. s 

 addresses at, ii. 169, 190 



Lepsius, Karl Richard, Egyptologist, i. 39 



Lesseps, Ferdinand de, W. s estimate of, 

 i. 566 



&quot;L Europe,&quot; a journal published at 

 Frankfort-on-the-Maiu, i. 97 



Levasseur, Pierre Emile, at the Centen 

 nial Exposition, i. 510 



Leyden, Ernst von, W. s acquaintance 

 with, ii. 5 



Leyden, W. s visit in, ii. 315 



Libby Prison, W. s visit to, ii. 383 



Lieber, Francis, teacher of political phi 

 losophy at the University of South 

 Carolina, i. 255, ii. 384 



&quot; Liebig Classical Concerts &quot; in Berlin, i. 40 



Li Fong Pao, Chinese minister at Berlin, 

 i. 554 



Lincoln, Abraham, election, i. 86,87; re 

 election of, i. 120, 122 ; personal appear 

 ance of, i. 121, 122 ; death and funeral of, 

 i. 123, 124; concerning portraits of, i. 

 122, 203 ; Stevenson s story concerning, 

 ii. 127 



Lincoln, Robert, his remarks on portraits 

 of his father, i. 122 



Lind, Jenny, concerts in New York, i. 25 



Literature courses at some universities, 

 W. s criticism of, i. 384, 385 



Littlejohn, De Witt, i. 156 



Locomotive-drivers the heroes of W. s 

 childhood, i. 252 



Lodge, Henry Cabot, member of a civil- 

 service delegation to Washington in 

 1891, i. 224 



London, fog, i. 530; dinner of the Lord 

 Mayor, i. 531 



Long, John D., speech at National Con 

 vention of 1884, i. 204 



Longfellow, W. s visit with, at Nahant, i. 

 147, ii. 380 ; his opinion of Horace Gree- 

 ley, i. 147 ; W. dines with, at Cambridge, 



Lord, John, his lectures at Yale, i. 355 



Loris-Melikoff, General, the adviser of 

 Alexander II, ii. 56, 57 



Louis XIV, copy-book used by, when a 

 child, ii. 48 



Louis XVI, his flight to Varennes, ii. 406, 

 409 



Low, Henry R., senator at Albany, i. 103 



Low, Seth, a delegate to The Hague Peace 

 Conference, ii. 251, 273 



Lowell, James Russell, in Italy, i. 40; in 

 fluence of the &quot;Biglow Papers,&quot; i. 64- 

 his lectures at Cornell, i. 317, 355, 364; 

 stories told by, i. 358 ; W. s acquaintance 

 with, ii. 381 



Lu-Hai -Houan, Chinese minister at Ber- 

 hn, W. s advice to China, ii. 198-200 



Luise, Crown Princess of Saxony, ii. 206 



Lytton, Lord, W. a meeting with, ii. 405 



McClintock, John, in Germany at the time 



of the Civil War, i. 98 

 McDougal, United States senator, his de 

 fense of drunkenness, i. 158 

 McDowell, General, and the battle of Bull 

 Run, i. 88 ; the injustice of popular judg 

 ment upon him, i. 198 

 McGraw, Jenny, see Fiske, Jenny (Mc- 



Graw) 

 McGraw, John, gift of building to Cornell, 



i. 385 ; his belief in coeducation, i. 399 

 McKinley, William, at the National Con 

 vention of 1884, i. 206 ; election as Presi 

 dent, i. 238 ; appoints W T . ambassador to 

 Germany, i. 241, ii. 131 ; his equanimity 

 under trying conditions, i. 244-246, ii. 191 ; 

 his reelection, i. 246 ; his death, i. 247, ii. 

 197 ; its effect on German feeling, ii. 197 ; 

 his methods regarding appointments, ii. 

 133 ; his policy in regard to the Spanish- 

 American War, ii. 165 



MacVeagh, Wayne, i. 197, ii. 459 



McWhorter, Alexander, his theory con 

 cerning the Cardiff giant, ii. 480 



Mahan, Alfred T., delegate to The Hague 

 Peace Conference, ii. 251, 319 



Maine, Sir Henry, W. s acquaintance with, 

 ii. 403, 404 



Makharoff, Admiral, his fame, ii. 45 



Manners, a fine exhibition of , i. 452, 510 



Manning, Daniel, as newspaper reporter 

 in the Xew York Senate, i. 105 



Maria Feodorovna (Empress of Russia), 

 W. s conversation with, ii. 9 



Marin, Don Juan, his tine manners, i. 510 



Marochetti, Italian ambassador at St. 

 Petersburg, ii. 23 



Marsh, George P., as American minister 

 to Italy, i. 594 



Marsh, Othniel Charles, his opinion of 

 the Cardiff giant, ii. 475 



Martens, M. de, delegate to the Peace 

 Conference, ii. 264, 265 



Martha s Vineyard, pious amusements at, 

 ii. 389 



Martin, Henri, French historian, i. 522 



Massarani, Tullo, at the Paris Exposition 

 Of 1878, i. 513 



May, Samuel Joseph, i. 12 ; and the anti- 

 slavery party, i. 16 ; his death, i. 162 ; his 

 religious faith, i. 163, ii. 534 ; gifts to Cor 

 nell University, i. 164 



Meissonier, reminiscences of, i. 512 



Mendeleieff, an authority in chemistry, 

 ii. 46 



Menzel, Adolf von, W. s visit to the studio 

 of, i. 562 



Merchant navy of the United States, W. s 

 criticism of, ii. 234 



Methuen, General, reminiscences of, i. 549 



Mexico, W. s trip to, with Andrew Carne 

 gie, i. 235, ii. 446 



Meyerheim, Paul, W. s acquaintance 

 with, ii. 5 



Michael, Grand Duke, his good reputa 

 tion, ii. 11 



Michael Palace, St. Petersburg, W. s visit 

 to, i. 291 



Michigan, French history of, i. 275 



Middle ages, history of, proposed by W., 

 as an introduction to modern history, ii. 

 505 



&quot;Military Tract&quot; in central New York, 

 i. 3 



Millet, Rene, at the Centennial Exposi 

 tion, i. 510 



Minghetti, Marco, W. much impressed by, 

 i. 570 ; his discussion of Italian affairs, ii. 

 418, 419 



Missionaries, American and English, in 

 Egypt, ii. 436, 438 



