CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
By train de luxe from Paris to Nice—The Monte Carlo games[1]
CHAPTER II.
Oldpaint, Cockspur, and North Adams at the Casino[14]
CHAPTER III.
A bad night in Genoa harbor[27]
CHAPTER IV.
Rome—Good-Friday and Easter[39]
CHAPTER V.
Cutting a King—Margherita, Queen of Hearts[50]
CHAPTER VI.
Naples—Sorrento—Capri—Pæstum[57]
CHAPTER VII.
Fresh diggings at Pompeii—Vesuvius “working”—The tell-tale
seismograph—Solfatara		[68]
CHAPTER VIII.
Italian beggars—A neglected grave—The blue-gum tree and
malaria—Perugia—Etruscan tombs		[80]
CHAPTER IX.
Florence—Bologna—Como[91]
CHAPTER X.
Peasant-girls—Nightingales—Isola Bella—San Carlo Borromeo in copper[104]
CHAPTER XI.
The Simplon Pass in June—Vispach to Zermatt—The Matterhorn—A
fine view from the snows of Gorner Grat		[113]
CHAPTER XII.
Early Alpine flowers—A wedding-feast—The Rhône Valley and
glacier—The Furca Pass		[126]
CHAPTER XIII.
Avalanches on the Jungfrau—The guides of Grindelwald[136]
CHAPTER XIV.
Excelsior and the maiden[145]
CHAPTER XV.
An English admirer of the “American language”[158]
CHAPTER XVI.
Prehistoric lake-dwellers—An island inn and its memories[168]
CHAPTER XVII.
Carlsbad—Prague—Dresden[177]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Berlin—Its military atmosphere[188]
CHAPTER XIX.
St. Petersburg in July[203]
CHAPTER XX.
The first droschky-ride—Sunset at the islands—Early morning
views of the Nevskoi Prospekt		[215]
CHAPTER XXI.
Grand-Duke Alexis—The American minister and his chasseur—Russian
press censorship—An indignant Briton—Undiscoverable Nihilists		[233]
CHAPTER XXII.
The holy city of Russia[250]
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Moscow Foundling Asylum[262]
CHAPTER XXIV.
Russian epicurism in tea—The Joltai-Tchai, or yellow-flower brand[275]
CHAPTER XXV.
A hunt for malachite and lapis-lazuli in the Gostinnoi Dvor[282]
CHAPTER XXVI.
The peacock-feather mystery—Manayunk and the old masters—His
fruitless search for the Kremlin—The Moscow rag-fair—Petrovsky
Palace—Dining in the grounds		[296]
CHAPTER XXVII.
A comedy of passports—Mythical police espionage[313]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Summer weather in Russia—St. Petersburg and Moscow enough
for sight-seers—M. Katkoff and his “Gazette”—Tsar and
people—Republican possibilities of the Cossack		[328]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Russian Finland—Stockholm—The largest known meteorite—The Djurgarden[342]
CHAPTER XXX.
By rail to Christiania—Fare on the road—Norway’s capital—The
Viking-ship—An inland tour		[353]
CHAPTER XXXI.
A baby kudsk—Tyri-Fiord—Hönefos—Lake Spirellen—Dinner
at a Sanitarium		[364]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Omnipotent kroner—The family parlor at Odnæs—Rands and
Christiania Fiords		[383]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Gothenburg whale—Three kings in a bunch—Northern
out-door life—A study of windmills		[394]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Diamond-cutting at Amsterdam[406]
APPENDIX.
Constitutional government for Russia[419]

ROUNDABOUT TO MOSCOW.