INDEX 



597 



Ratibor, Duke of, president of the Prus 

 sian House of Lords, i. 587 



Raumer, Friedrich von, lectures on the 

 history of Italy, i. 39 



Raymond, Henry J., his parliamentary 

 tactics at the National Convention of 

 1864, i. 119 



Readerships in English literature in uni 

 versities suggested, i. 428, 429 



Reconstruction in the South, W. S experi 

 ence with, i. 175 



Red Cross movement, ii. 325 



Reed, Sir Charles, i. 531 



Reed, Thomas B., W. s estimate of, ii. 316 



Reform School at Mettray, France, i. 523 



Religious beliefs, evolution of, ii. 568-573 



Religious services in various parts of 

 Europe, ii. 515, 542 



Renan, Ernest, W. at the funeral of, ii. 5 



Representatives of the United States at 

 foreign courts not properly provided 

 for, ii. 18-21, 50, 142, 182, 364-367 



Ribot, Augustin Theodule, i. 566 



Richardson, Robert, a stone-carver at 

 Cornell University, i. 408, 409 



&quot;Richelieu, Statesmanship of,&quot; i. 84; 

 &quot;The Greatest Foe of Republics,&quot; i. 127 



Richter in the German Parliament, ii. 154 



Ripon, Lord, W. s meeting with, i. 530 



Ritter, Carl, lectures on physical geogra 

 phy, i. 39 



Robert College at Constantinople, success 

 of, ii. 438 



Roberts, Ellis, nominates Roscoe Conk- 

 ling for the United States Senate, i. 135 



Roberts, J. I. P., professor at Cornell, i. 

 369 



Robespierre, correspondence with Jeffer 

 son, W. s search for, in French archives, 

 i. 37 



&quot; Robespierre,&quot; Sardou s, W. s criticism 

 of, ii. 275 



Rodenberg, Julius, his &quot;Reminiscences of 

 Berlin,&quot; i. 561 



Rogers, Sherman, argued for civil-service 

 reform, before President Harrison, i. 

 224, 225 



Rohan-Soubise, Prince de, W. s meeting 

 with, at grave of Chateaubriand at St. 

 Malo, i. 37 



Roman Catholic Church and William II, 

 ii. 240 



Roosevelt, Theodore, at the National Con 

 vention of 1884, i. 202, 205 ; a member of 

 a civil-service delegation to Washington 

 in 1891, i. 224, 228 ; W. urges his name for 

 the vice-presidency, i. 242; W. s visit 

 -with, at Oyster Bay, i. 243 ; as President, 

 i. 247; his message to the Emperor of 

 Germany, i. 247, 248, ii. 202 ; letters to W. 

 on his seventieth birthday, ii. 215 



Root, Elihu, birth at Syracuse, N. Y., i. 10 



Root, Oren, principal of Syracuse Acad 

 emy, i. 10; called to Hamilton College, 

 i. 11 



Rothschild, Lord, on the treatment of the 

 Jews in Russia, ii. 4 ; his loan to Russia, 



Royal Academy of Sciences, bicentenary, 

 ii. 183 ; W. made an honorary member 

 of, ii. 202 



Rudhardt, Bavarian minister at Berlin, i. 

 552 ; Bismarck s treatment of, i. 586 



Rugby, W. s visit to, ii. 430 



Ruskin, John, W. s criticism of, i. 24 ; pu 

 pil of Osborne Gordon, i. 34; meeting 

 with Hoi man Hunt, ii. 459 



Russel, William Channing, his vice-pres 

 idency at Cornell, i. 436 ; his success in 

 teaching, his characteristics, i. 437 



Russell, Lord John, connection with the 



Alabama incident, i. 92, ii. 367, 401; im 

 pression of, by Gold win Smith, i. 92; 

 Lecky s view of, ii. 427 



Russell, Odo William, British ambassa 

 dor at Berlin, i. 547 ; his change of 

 name, i. 548 ; his reminiscence of Pope 

 Pius IX, ii. 548 



Russell, Sir William Howard, his &quot;Amer 

 ican Diary,&quot; published in the London 

 &quot; Times,&quot; i. 94 



Russia, friendly relations with the United 

 States, i. 450, 455, 460; relations with 

 Austria, i. 451, 452 ; inferiority of Rus 

 sian arms, i. 454; abolishment of the serf 

 system, i. 455, ii. 7, 27, 28, 56, 109 ; Ameri 

 can physicians in the Russian army, i. 

 455 ; Crimean War, i. 448, 450, 456, 464- 

 466 ; weakness of Russia, i. 465 ; illustra 

 tions of Russian officialism,!. 468, 473, ii. 

 36 ; Bismarck s feelings toward Russia, 

 i. 595 ; defects of railway systems, ii. 5, 

 6, 34, 454 ; famine, ii. 10, 42, 74 ; Behring 

 Sea fisheries question, ii. 5, 7, 13-21, 33; 

 Russian statesmen, ii. 22-40 ; army and 

 navy departments, ii. 28 ; dealings with 

 Finland, ii. 29-31, 70 ; Russian finances, 

 loan of gold offered to the United States, 

 ii. 33, 35 ; Jews in Russia, ii. 4, 34, 39, 51, 77 ; 

 enterprise and industry not encouraged, 

 ii. 37, 38 ; a high value set upon citizen 

 ship, ii. 39, 40 ; hatred of things German, 

 ii. 41 ; annexation of Bokhara, ii. 43, 112 ; 

 prison system, ii. 43 ; Buchanan treaty 

 of 1832, ii. 52 ; cholera epidemic, ii. 53 ; 

 public instruction, ii. 60; reasons for 

 peculiar religious, social, and political 

 creeds, ii. 85 ; the Raskoluiks or Old Be 

 lievers, ii. 90; official censorship of 

 newspapers and books, ii. 101. 102 ; lack 

 of public discussion gives rise to leg 

 ends, ii. 102 ; troubles of Russian-Amer 

 icans, ii. 103-107 ; festivities at the Win 

 ter Palace, compared with the Berlin 

 court, ii. 109, 110 ;&quot; Nubians &quot; at the Win 

 ter Palace, ii. 113 ; funerals, weddings, 

 music, ii. 114, 115 ; effect of Russian civ 

 ilization on sundry strong men, ii. 98- 

 100 ; attitude toward The Hague Peace 

 Conference, ii. 11, 27, 69, 250, 262, 265, 333 ; 

 the possible acquisition of Scandinavia, 



Russian-Americans, W. s difficulties with, 

 ii. 52 



Russian-Germans, hostility of Russians 

 to, ii. 41 



Russian life, i. 464, 468, 473 



Russian statesmen, character of, ii. 25, 26, 

 334; rarity of first-class men, ii. 27; 

 shown at The Hague Peace Conference, 

 ii. 28 ; in dealings with Finland, ii. 29 ; in 

 dealings with the Baltic provinces, ii. 32 



Russo-Greek Church, relations of, to the 

 empire, ii. 59, 546; possible relations 

 between the Russian and English 

 churches, ii. 63 ; Pobedonostzeff on the 

 possibility of introducing the &quot;Holy 

 Orthodox Church&quot; into the United 

 States, ii. 65 ; Tolstoi s opinion, ii. 75 



Ryan, Archbishop, his Latin pun, ii. 445 



Sabouroff, Russian ambassador at Berlin, 



i. 551 

 Sadoullah Bey, Turkish ambassador at 



Berlin, i. 551 

 &quot; Safety Fund System &quot; of banking in 



1857, 1. 184 

 Sage, Dean, endowment of Cornell 



preachership, i. 403 

 Sage, Henry W., his gift of Sage College 



to Cornell University, i. 399-402 ; other 



