and Avignon--M. Thiers' ingenious cousin--Possibilities--French
political situation in 1874--The Comte de Chambord--Some French
characteristics--High intellectual level--Three days in a
Trappist Monastery--Details of life there--The Arian heresy--
Silkworm culture--Tendencies of French to complicate details--Some
examples--Cicadas in London.

CHAPTER VI

Brunswick--Its beauty--High level of culture--The Brunswick
Theatre--Its excellence--Gas vs. Electricity--Primitive theatre
toilets--Operatic stars in private life--Some operas unknown in
London--Dramatic incidents in them--Levasseur's parody of
"Robert"--Some curious details about operas--Two fiery old pan-
Germans--Influence of the teaching profession on modern Germany--
The "French and English Clubs"--A meeting of the "English Club"
Some reflections about English reluctance to learn foreign
tongues--Mental attitude of non-Prussians in 1875--Concerning
various beers--A German sportsman--The silent, quinine-loving
youth--The Harz Mountains--A "Kettle-drive" for hares--Dialects of
German--The odious "Kaffee-Klatch"--Universal gossip--Hamburg's
overpowering hospitality--Hamburg's attitude towards Britain--The
city itself--Trip to British Heligoland--The island--Some
peculiarities--Migrating birds--Sir Fitzhardinge Maxse--Lady
Maxse--The Heligoland Theatre--Winter in Heligoland

CHAPTER VII

Some London beauties of the "seventies"--Great ladies--The
Victorian girl--Votaries of the Gaiety Theatre Two witty ladies--