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sides in Massachusetts, though she frequently comes 

 to Europe to visit her daughter, to whom she is 

 devotedly attached, and whom she nursed with such 

 untiring care and attention at the time of her critical 

 illness at Cannes two years ago. I may add that, 

 when he gave up his judicial duties in 1882, Mrs. 

 Chamberlain's late father came to this country for 

 some months, and was often the guest of the late Lord 

 Herschell, who was then Solicitor-General in Mr. 

 Gladstone's Administration ; and, although his 

 daughter accompanied him on that occasion, she did 

 not, as already stated, make Mr. Chamberlain's 

 acquaintance until five years later. 



To revert for a moment to this reception at the 

 Legation. One of the most prominent men to 

 whom we were introduced on that occasion was 

 Lt.-General Philip H. Sheridan, whose distinguished 

 cavalry exploits in the war between the North and 

 South won him immortal fame. Short in stature, 

 rather stout, with a florid countenance, and a rather 

 bashful and retiring manner, *' Little Phil," as his 

 soldiers called him, looked every inch the soldier. 

 Sheridan, Grant, and Sherman, as every reader of 

 history knows, were the three most distinguished 

 Federal leaders in that great struggle. General 

 Sherman lived in practical retirement in New York 



