The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02

Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill of Fare, Table d'hote— An American Sir —A Curious Discovery—The Pilgrim Bird—Strange Companionship—A Grave of the Living—A Long Captivity—Some of Dumas' Heroes—Dungeon of the Famous Iron Mask.
A Holiday Flight through France—Summer Garb of the Landscape—Abroad on the Great Plains—Peculiarities of French Cars—French Politeness American Railway Officials— Twenty Mnutes to Dinner! —Why there are no Accidents—The Old Travellers —Still on the Wing—Paris at Last——French Order and Quiet—Place of the Bastile—Seeing the Sights—A Barbarous Atrocity—Absurd Billiards
More Trouble—Monsieur Billfinger—Re-Christening the Frenchman—In the Clutches of a Paris Guide—The International Exposition—Fine Military Review—Glimpse of the Emperor Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey
The Venerable Cathedral of Notre-Dame—Jean Sanspeur's Addition—Treasures and Sacred Relics—The Legend of the Cross—The Morgue—The Outrageious 'Can-Can'—Blondin Aflame—The Louvre Palace—The Great Park—Showy Pageantry—Preservation of Noted Things
French National Burying—Ground—Among the Great Dead—The Shrine of Disappointed Love—The Story of Abelard and Heloise— English Spoken Here — American Drinks Compounded Here —Imperial Honors to an American—The Over-estimated Grisette—Departure from Paris—A Deliberate Opinion Concerning the Comeliness of American Women
Versailles—Paradise Regained—A Wonderful Park—Paradise Lost—Napoleonic Strategy
War—The American Forces Victorious— Home Again —Italy in Sight The City of Palaces —Beauty of the Genoese Women—The Stub-Hunters —Among the Palaces—Gifted Guide—Church Magnificence— Women not Admitted —How the Genoese Live—Massive Architecture—A Scrap of Ancient History—Graves for 60,000
Flying Through Italy—Marengo—First Glimpse of the Famous Cathedral—Description of some of its Wonders—A Horror Carved in Stone——An Unpleasant Adventure—A Good Man—A Sermon from the Tomb—Tons of Gold and Silver—Some More Holy Relics—Solomon's Temple