CHAPTER XXXI. MEN OF NOTE IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE--
1879-1881

My relations with professors at the Berlin University. Lepsius,
Curtius, Gneist, Von Sybel, Droysen. Hermann Grimm and his wife.
Treitschke. Statements of Du Bois-Reymond regarding the
expulsion of the Huguenots from France. Helmholtz and Hoffmann;
a Scotch experience of the latter. Acquaintance with professors
at other universities. Literary men of Berlin. Auerbach. His
story of unveiling the Spinoza statue. Rodenberg. Berlin
artists. Knaus; curious beginning of my acquaintance with him.
Carl Becker. Anton von Werner; his statement regarding his
painting the ``Proclamation of the Empire at Versailles.'' Adolf
Menzel; visit to his studio; his quaint discussions of his own
pictures. Pilgrimage to Oberammergau, impressions, my
acquaintance with the ``Christus'' and the ``Judas''; popular
prejudice against the latter. Excursion to France. Talks with
President Grvy and with the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Barthlemy-Saint-Hilaire. The better side of France.
Talk with M. de Lesseps. The salon of Madame Edmond Adam.
mile de Girardin. My recollections of Alexander Dumas.
Sainte-Beuve. Visit to Nice. Young Leland Stanford. Visit to
Florence. Ubaldino Peruzzi. Professor Villari. A reproof from
a Harvard professor. Minghetti. Emperor Frederick III; his
visit to the American Fisheries Exposition; the Americans win the
prize. Interest of the Prince in everything American. Kindness
and heartiness of the Emperor William I; his interest in
Bancroft; my final interview with him. Farewell dinner to me by
my Berlin friends.