xii Contents. 



IN EUROPE, 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Biest — First impressions — A four-legged baby — Paris — Castle Anholt— 

 Prince Alfred — His family — Our position — Journey to Vienna — 

 Audience with the Emperor of Austria— Result — Salm in the hands 

 of his old enemies — Flight — My audience with the mother of Maxi- 

 milian — Her present — Munich — Countess Salm-Hoegstraeten — Re- 

 turn to Westphalia — Princess Minna — Prince Alfred dangerously ill 

 — Rheingrafenstein — von Stein — Meeting with Corvins in Rorschach 

 — Castle Wiggen — The Rorschach Hill — The Lake of Constance — 

 Mrs. Raggebas — Visitors — A visit to Combe Varin — Professor 

 Edward Desor — Baron H. and wife — A Russian Baron and his 

 daughter — Prince Hohenzollern — At the Weinburg — Off to Berlin. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 



Salm's Diai-y in Mexico published--Prince Kraflft Hohen^ohe — Baron 

 Magnus — Audience with Princess Charles of Prussia — Countess Seyd- 

 ewitz — At Baroness Schleinitz's — Salm Major in the Guards — Audience 

 with Her Majesty the Queen — Countess Schulemburg — Countess 

 Benckendorff — Fast habits — Coblentz — Society there — The Prussian 

 army — Prussian officers — The regiment ' Queen Augusta.' . 251 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Our society — Countess Haake — In Berlin with the Corvins — Another 

 audience with the Queen — The King — A queer cousin — Prince Salm- 

 Horstmar — A princely apostle — Housekeeping lessons — Mr. General 

 von S . — Salm's revolt — I try my hand at match-making — Excur- 

 sions — Mr. Moriary — Princess S W and her sons — Mesal- 

 liances — A poetical friend — Coblentz life — Publrc tea-gardens — The 

 Oueen in Coblentz — Princess Lie^nitz — 'Uncle Herrmann' — The 

 Grand Duchess Dowager of Mecklenburg — in Ems — Their Majesties 

 The Queen as a godmother — Baron Gerolt — Why he resigned — Mr. 

 Bancroft— His meanness — In Ems with his Majesty — My cousin, the 

 Duchess of Osuna — Breakfast with their Majesties at Sayn — Military 

 manoeuvres — Visit to Anholt — Prince and Princess of Weid — A party 

 at her Majesty's — Grand Duchess of .Baden and Princess William — A 

 ball at her Majesty's — I dance with the Grand Duke of Weimar — 

 Breakfast at her Majesty's- -Dinner at Neuweid — Prince and Princess 

 of Roumania — The Count of Flanders — Departure of the Queen — 

 Christmas in Anholt — \ battue — Bitter reflections. . . . 26-? 



