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INDEX 



president of the Imperial Relief Com 

 mission, ii. 10; W. s prophecy concern 

 ing, ii. 30 ; compared with Charles IX of 

 France, ii. 31 ; influence of Pobedonost- 

 zeffover, ii. 69 



Nicholas, Grand Duke, his inhuman con 

 duct, ii. 11 



Nigra, Count, at the Peace Conference, ii. 

 258, 264, 294, 300 



Nimr, an Armenian, located at Cairo, his 

 scientific activities, ii. 436 



Nominating conventions, carelessness of, 

 as to second place upon ticket, i. 53 ; 

 mob hysterics at, i. 204, 206, 577 



Nordau, Max, his opinion of Ruskin, i. 24 



Norway, W. s visit to, in 1893, ii. 451 



Nostitz-Wallwitz, representative of Sax 

 ony at Berlin, i. 552 



Nothomb, the &quot; Belgian father of consti 

 tutional liberty,&quot; i. 552 



Nye, Albert, i. 90 



Oberammergau, W. s pilgrimage to the 

 mystery-play at, i. 564 



Oberlin College, coeducation at, i. 400 



Ogle gold-spoon speech in the presidential 

 campaign of 1840, i. 51 



Oliver, James Edward, professor at Cor 

 nell, i. 365 



Olmsted, Denison, lecturer at Yale, i. 27 



Oncken, Wilhelm, his historical lectures 

 at Geissen, i. 560 



Onondaga Valley, New York, and its peo 

 ple, ii. 466, 467 



&quot;Oscillatory Law of Human Progress&quot; 

 illustrated, i. 384, 385 



Ourousoff, Princess, her answer to Alex 

 ander III, ii. 47 



Owen, Robert Dale, American minister 

 to Italy, i. 41 ; impression made by, upon 

 W., i. 72 



Oxford, W. S visits to, i. 34, ii. 208, 395; W. 

 as Yale representative at Bodleian ter 

 centenary and his reception of D.C.L. 

 degree, ii. 208 



Paper-knife souvenir of Meissonier, i. 513 



&quot;Paper Money Inflation in France,&quot; by 

 W., i. 113-117, 238, ii. 490 



Paris, the student restaurant of Madame 

 Busque, i. 479 



Paris Arbitration Tribunal and the Behr- 

 ing Sea question, ii. 13-20 ; the Venezue 

 lan boundary decision, ii. 124 



Paris Exposition of 1878, honorary com 

 missioners from the United States, i. 

 511; members of the upper jury of 

 award, i. 512; international copyright 

 convention, i. 524 ; gifts and decorations 

 bestowed, i. 525 



Paris Exposition of 1889, W. s visit to, ii. 



Parker, Theodore, his knowledge of Rus 

 sian affairs, i. 80 ; his influence upon W 

 ii. 487, 535 



Pasitch, Servian minister at St. Peters 

 burg, twice condemned to death, ii. 24 



Pasteur, Louis, W. s visit with, i. 522 



Paul, Father, W. s researches regarding, 

 11. 205 



Pauncefote, Sir Julian, W. s acquaintance 

 with, at Washington, ii. 124 ; a delegate 

 to the Peace Conference, ii. 258, 264, 278, 



Peabody, George, in London, i. 73, 448 ; his 

 presentation at the Vatican, ii. 424 

 ^I^ Dom W 8 acquaintance with, i. 



oU, 509 



Pellico, Silvio, W. s visit to the grave of, 

 1. 568 



Peruzzi, Ubaldino, his tribute to Judge 

 Stallo, i. 569 ; W. s acquaintance with, 



Peter the Great, Tolstoi s estimate of, ii 

 80 



Peter III, account of the murder of, ii. 44 



Phelps, William &quot;Walter, as Elaine s rep 

 resentative, i. 208, 213, 214; gate-tower 

 at Yale in memory of, i. 289 ; as minister 

 to Germany, ii. 5 



Phillips, Wendell, and the anti-slavery 

 party, i. 16 



Pierce, Franklin, pro-slavery policy of, i. 

 65 



Pierpont, Edwards, his speech at the din 

 ner of the Lord Mayor, i. 532 



Pius IX, reminiscences of, i. 547, ii. 548 



Platt, Thomas C., W. s efforts to convert, 

 to civil-service reform, i. 196, 233; his 

 interview with W. in 1891 concerning 

 the governorship, i. 229-234 



Plehve, his cruelties against the Jews and 

 in his dealings with Finland, ii. 38, 39 



Pobedonostzeff, Constantine, his great 

 power, ii. 55 ; his history, ii. 55-57 ; W. s 

 meeting with, ii. 58 ; his characteristics, 

 ii. 58; his views on the Russo-Greek 

 Church, ii. 59, 63, 70; his hostility to 

 Western civilization, ii. 60; his theory 

 of public instruction, ii. 60 ; his love for 

 American literature, ii. 61, 66 ; feeling 

 toward him in Russian society, ii. 62; 

 Dana s impression of him, ii. 63; his 

 support of The Hague Peace Conference, 

 ii.70, 269 ; his feelings regarding Tolstoi, 

 ii. 61 ; his part in Russia s dealings with 

 Finland, ii. 70 ; the &quot; Torquemada of the 

 nineteenth century,&quot; ii. 58, 71 ; the at 

 tempted assassination of, ii. 70 



Polk and Dallas campaign of 1844, i. 53, 54 



Pollock, Sir Frederick, i. 532 



Porter, Noah, professor at Yale, i. 28 ; per 

 sonal friendship with W., i. 31, 223 



Posadowski in the German Parliament, 

 ii. 154 



Poschinger, Heinrich, the biographer of 

 Bismarck, i. 598 



Positivist Conventicle in London, ii, 566 



Potter, Alonzo, bishop, his influence upon 

 W.,ii. 540 



Potter, Platt, president of a New York 

 State convention, i. 152 



Pozzo di Borgo family country-seat in 

 Corsica, ii. 213 



Prince, Mr., his reminiscences of Amer 

 ican ministers at St. Petersburg, ii. 49 



Prison system of Russia, ii. 43 



Prussian kingdom, bicentenary of, ii. 192 



Pullman, George, early life in Chicago, ii. 

 378 



&quot;Punch,&quot; Bismarck cartoon &quot;Dropping 

 the Pilot&quot; in, ii. 220 



Quaker, Hicksite, W. at death-bed of, ii. 



563 

 Quincy, Josiah, W. s acquaintance with, 



ii. 379 

 Quintana, Manuel Jose, the Spanish poet, 



at the Paris Exposition of 1878, i. 512 



Rachel, French actress, i. 34 



Radzivill, Princess, her accounts of Ma 

 dame de Hanska, ii. 47 



Railway systems in Russia, government 

 control, li. 5, 6, 34, 38, 454 



Rameses the Great, discovery of the 

 mummy of, ii. 434 



Ranke, Leopold von, German historian, 

 personal habits, in lecture-room, i. 39 



Raskolniks or Old Believers in Russia, ii. 

 90 



