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which should be taken in their selection by the
Secretary of State. Appointment of expert attaches. Probable good
results of the system proposed. Evil results of the present system.
Retention of the men best fitted. Examples of English non-partizanship
in such appointments. Foremost importance of proper houses or
apartments, owned or leased for long terms by the United States for
each of its representatives abroad; evil results of the present system;
certainty of good results from the reform advocated. Present American
system contrasted with that of other nations. Services rendered by
sundry American diplomatists. Cheapness of our diplomatic
establishment compared with its value. Increase of salaries. Summing
up of results of all the reforms herein advocated.
PART VI-SUNDRY JOURNEYS AND EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER LI
. EARLIER EXCURSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES--1838-1875
Usefulness of various journeys to me. Excursion through central and
western New York in 1838--in middle Massachusetts, Boston, and New
York City in 1842. Impression made by Trinity Church. Beginning of
visits to Saratoga in 1843; life there; visits of Archbishop Hughes,
Father Gavazzi, Washington Irving, Mr. Buchanan; the Parade of Mme.
Jumel. Remarkable progress of the city of New York northward as seen
at various visits. First visit to the West. Chicago in 1858; the raising of
the grade; Mr. George Pullman's part in it. Impression made on me by
the Mississippi River. Sundry stays in Boston. Mr. Josiah Quincy.
Arthur Gilman; his stories and speeches; his delivery of Bishop
Eastburn's sermons; his stories regarding the Bishop. Men met at

Boston. Celebration of Bayard Taylor's birthday with James T. Fields;
reminiscences and stories given by the company; example of Charles
Sumner's lack of humor. Excursions in the Southern States. Visit to
Richmond at the close of the war; Libby Prison; meeting with Dr.
Bacon of New Haven at the former Executive Mansion of the
Confederacy. Visit to Gettysburg; fearful condition of the battle-field
and its neighborhood. Visit to South Carolina, 1875. Florida. A negro
church; discovery of a Christmas carol imbedded in a plantation hymn.
Excursion up the St. Johns River. Visit to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Collection of books on the Civil War. A visit to Martha's Vineyard;
pious amusements; "Nearer, My God, to Thee" played as a waltz.
CHAPTER LII
. ENGLAND REVISITED--1885
Reason for going abroad after my resignation of the Cornell Presidency
in 1885. "Tom Brown" at sea; sundry stories of his. Southwest of
England. Visit to the historian Freeman at Wells. The Bishop and his
palace. The Judge's dinner. The Squires in the Court of Quarter
Sessions. A Gladstonian meeting; Freeman's speech; his defense of the
last Abbot of Glastonbury. Bishop Bickersteth at Heavitree and Exeter.
The caves at Torquay and their lessons. Worcester Cathedral and
Deanery. "The Bungalow" of Halliwell-Phillips at Brighton. Oxford;
chapel of All Souls College--?? interesting change seen at Magdalen;
Bryce's comparisons between British and American problems; visits to
various colleges. Discussions of university affairs. Freeman's lectures.
To Windsor. Stay with Sir Paul Hunter at Mortimer. Visit to Bearwood.
Mr. John Walter of the "Times." Visit to "Bramshill." Cambridge. New
acquaintances. Talks with Bishop Creighton and Sir Henry Maine.
Beginnings of technical instruction at Cambridge. A Greek play. Lord
Lytton. Professor Seeley and his lectures. "Audit dinner" at Trinity
College. Professor Mahaffy's stories of Archbishop Whately. London.
Talks with Lecky.
CHAPTER LIII
. FRANCE, ITALY, AND SWITZEBLAND--1886-1887
Mme. Blaze de Bury. From Paris to the Riviera. James Bryce. George
von Bunsen. Sir Charles Murray. Lord Acton; discussions with the

latter; his wide range of knowledge; his information regarding Father
Paul, the Congregation of the Index, etc. Sir Henry Keating and the
discussion at the Cercle Nautique of Cannes. Lord Acton's view of
Napoleon. Florence; talks with Villari. Naples; the Doctrine of
Intercession as shown in sundry pictures. Amalfi. Sorrento; the
Catechism of Archbishop Apuzzo; Francis Galton; his discussion of
dreams; Marion Crawford; Mr. Mayall's story of Herbert Spencer. Visit
to Monte Cassino; talk with a novice. Excursions in Rome with
Lanciani. Cardinal Edward at St. Peter's. Discussions of Italian affairs
with Minghetti, Sambuy, and others. The sculptor Story.
Non-intercourse between Vatican and Quirinal. Judge Stallo. The
Abbot of St. Paul Outside the Walls; bis minute knowledge of certain
American affairs. Count de Gubernatis, at Florence, on the legendary
character of sundry Hindu marvels. Count Ressi and his Catawba wine.
Alfieri Sostegno and his school for political and social studies.
Ubaldino Peruzzi. Stay at the Italian lakes. Visit to my colleague,
Minister Both, in Switzerland; his duties as Landamman. The Abbey of
St. Gall and its library. Visit to the Engadine. Talks with the British
Admiral Irvine, at St. Moritz; his advocacy of war vessels with beaks.
Sermon at Geneva. Talks with Mme. Blaze de Bury and Lecky at Paris.
Architectural excursions through the east of France. Outrages by
"restorers" at Rheims and