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CONTENTS.

First arrival in America-Welcome at Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard's

-A Presidential campaign-Personal recollections of Horace

Greeley-General politics-Disinclination of the best people

to take part in them-Cincinnati riots in 1884,

Reception at Steinway Hall-The Sorosis Club-Mrs. Croly-Miss

Mary L. Booth-Louise Chandler Moulton-Clergywomen-

Dr. Mary Putnam-Jacobi-Harper's printing-office-River-

side Press at Cambridge, Mass.-Women printers and the

Victoria Press-Queen Victoria's views on women's spheres-

Mr. Gladstone on monopolies-Messrs. Young, Ladd, & Coffin's

manufactory of Lundborg's perfumes-Mrs. Stanton and

Susan B. Anthony-Hon. Gerrit Smith at Peterboro-Winter

travelling in America-Mrs. Parke Godwin and an Art

The President at the White House-Washington etiquette-Caste

in America-Women Lobbyists—Women employed in the

Civil Service-Verdict of General Spinner on the female clerks

-Lady John Manners and the English notion of their social

position-Draughts women in English Engineer offices-Con-

versation with Senator Sumner on Republicanism and English

loyalty to Queen Victoria-Grace Greenwood,

Railroads, drawing-room cars, sleepers, and hotel cars-Cookery in

restaurants, hotels, and private houses-Chicago-Mrs. Kate

Doggett, Mrs. Fernando Jones, General Osborne-The Sol-

diers' Home at Milwaukee-American affection for England,

A visit to the University of Michigan--President Angel-Andrew

White of Cornell-Professor Coit Tyler-Kansas State Uni-

versity-Chancellor Lippincott-Discussion about co-educa-

tion-Columbia College-Rev. Dr. Dix and Professor Drisler

-Consequences of higher education on health-Views of

Frances Power Cobbe, George MacDonald, Mrs. Joseph Choate,

President Barnard-Rise and progress of the movement in

England-Miss Dawes, the first Master of Arts in the London

University-Mrs. Lucy Mitchell,

Vassar College-Professor Maria Mitchell-President Caldwell-

Life of the students--Effect of study upon health-Improve-

ments in the direction of out-door amusements between visits

in 1873 and 1883-Riding, lawn-tennis, and boating-Wel-

lesley College and its fire-brigade manned by girls-Mill's

Seminary, the Vassar of the Pacific coast-Miss Haskell at

Godfrey-Payment of female teachers in public schools-

English Governesses-Colonel Higginson on the gross injus-

tice of the inequalities existing between the salaries of men

and women teachers in the United States-Kate Field on the

difficulties surrounding journalism-Anna Dickinson-The

growing taste for plays versus lectures,

The Quaker city-Changes in society-School of Young Lady

Potters-New Century Club-The Mint, and women

ployed in it-Theatres and English artists-Silk culture-

Mr. George W. Childs, the Ledger, and his work-people-

Wootton-Original manuscripts and autographs-Walt Whit-

man his views on New York, Boston, Washington, and the

West-Mrs. Hannah Smith and the Temperance Union-

Coffee-houses, .

Boston its east wind, culture, and English look-False accusa-

tion of "decadence," but gaps in the aristocracy of letters

between first and second visits-Longfellow, James Fields,

Professor Agassiz-Asthma and its remedies-John Greenleaf

Whittier Oliver Wendell Holmes-Mrs. Julia Ward Howe

and the New England Club-Victoria Discussion Society-

Evacuation Day in New York and Forefathers' Day in Boston

-Rev. Edward Everett Hale-Visit to the Boston Univer-

sity with the Dean and Mrs. Talbot-Miss Peabody and the

Kindergarten-The Papyrus Club-Dr. Harriet Hunt-The

Bible and the Woman question,

English and American receptions contrasted-St. Louis-Absence

of gentlemen at afternoon receptions-Innovation at St. Louis

-Mrs. Bigelow's "At home"-Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson

of Chicago Illinois women-Judge Bradwell and his lawyer

wife-Dr. and Mrs. Hoggan of London-Incident during a

railway journey-Charlotte Cushman on and off the stage-

Compared as a reader with Fanny Kemble-Mr. Sothern and

Miss Cushman at a steamer banquet--The ruse to avoid

speech-making-The model town of Pullman-Caboose tra-

velling in Wisconsin and Minnesota-Cincinnati during the

flood of 1883-Governor Noyes-Murat Halstead and Mr.

New Year's Day [1884] in Colorado-The Rocky Mountains —

Denver-Mrs. Olive Wright-Greeley-Ralph Meeker-

Dynamite Agitators-Colorado Springs-General Palmer's

enterprise-Dr. Solly-President Tenny's picnic in January

-Journey over the Rocky Mountains, through the Grand

Canyon of the Arkansas-Salida-Marshall Pass-Gunnison

-Across the desert to Salt Lake City,

Brigham Young and the "true inwardness of Mormonism "--In-

ducements to converts to emigrate to the "promised land"

-Polygamy kept out of sight-Zion's poet-laureate, Eliza

Snow Mrs. Emmeline Wells, etc.-Mormon women and

wives-The effects of polygamy-Sermons in the Tabernacle

and Sunday evening ward meetings-Brigham Young and

others on the "women's discontent "-Exclusion of unmarried

women from the kingdom of heaven-Introduction of second

wives-The effect of any lengthened visit to Salt Lake City

-War between Mormons and Gentiles-Endowment House,

with its religious dramas, baptisms, and sealings,

The President's Secretary, Mr. George Reynolds-Mr. George Q.

Cannon-A religious argument after the President's luncheon

-The ox-team wagon journey across the plains-Mormon

amusements, theatres, and dances-The effect of stage-plays

on the plural wives-Captain Boyd on the Latter Day Saints

-The Mormon Bible-The Doctrines and Covenants-

"Joseph the Seer's" revelations from the Lord to his wife

Emma-The women's right to the franchise and their depri-

vation of dower-Accusations against the Gentiles-Mormon

criminal statistics-The Salt Lake Tribune on "Gulled Eng-

lish travellers "-Celestial marriages and divorces-Governor

Murray-Mrs. Paddick—The duty of Congress,

American hotel despotism: Hours for meals-The journey across

the desert from Ogden-The disappearance of the Indians and

buffaloes from the railroad tracks-The flight of antelopes-

The Sierra-Nevada mountains-San Francisco-Palace Hotel

-Bell-boys and hotel servants generally—Chinatown in its

New-Year garb-Cable-cars-Drives to the Cliff House

through the park and to the Presidio-Wooden houses-Fires

and the Fire Brigade-Dr. Hardy's Foundling Hospital on

Golden Gate Avenue, .

CONTENTS.

Strange contrasts afforded-Drinking and total abstinence-

Divorces-Fast sets and earnest reform workers-Mrs. Sarah

B. Cooper-Free Kindergartens-Mr. Tabor's Art Gallery-

Lotta Crabtree's fountain-The Baldwin Hotel-Mr. Highton

-Silk culture-Efforts of Mrs. Hittell and the State Board

-Prizes won at the Philadelphia Exhibition by Californian

ladies for the best silk cocoons raised in the United States-

Commercial opportunities of San Francisco-The Immigration

Association-Chinese labour question,

Strawberries in February; roses and geraniums growing in the

open air-New Orleans and Colorado and California contrasted

-Oakland and the Ebell Society-Fresno-An exciting drive

through the colonies-Miss Austin's vineyard-Mr. Miller of

the Fresno Republican—Mr. A. B. Butler-Raisin-making—

The Eisen vineyard-Sampling Californian wines-Family

Emigration and the kind of people wanted-Bee culture-An

ostrich ranche,

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The orange groves at Los Angeles-The unprecedented rainfall of

1884-Riverside-Pasedena--Mrs. Jennie Carr-Practical

work for women in California-Mrs. Strong's cotton ranche--

Mrs. Rogers's 40,000 herd of cattle in Texas-Domestic

servants-Emigration-Mrs. E. L. Blanchard-Openings in

Australia and New Zealand-The Geysers and Mineral Springs

-Southern Pacific Railroad-Glimpses of Arizona and New

Mexico-Kansas-Cattle ranches in Wyoming,

Divorce-Journalistic announcements, advertisements, and para-

graphs-Two strange divorces followed by remarriages-

Divorces traced by the American press to the increase of

mercenary marriages-Dr. Dwinell's statistics-Chief Justice

Noah Davis at the Nineteenth Century Club Meeting on

divorce-Mr. Charles Stuart Welles-The moral effect of the

Divorce Court in England-The New French Law-The

Rev. Robert Collyer, .

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