ns 394
A fire at his hotel 395
Local and general politics 397
Railway arrangements 398
Police of New York 398
Mistletoe from England 399
As to newspapers 400
Nothing lasts long 401
Cities chosen for readings 401
Scene of a murder visited 402
A dinner at the murderer's 403
Illness and abstinence 404
Miseries of American travel 405
Startling prospect 406

CHAPTER XVI. 1868.

Pages 407-443.

AMERICA REVISITED. JANUARY TO APRIL, 1868. AET. 56.

Speculators and public 408
An Englishman's disadvantage 408
"Freedom and independence" 408
Mountain-sneezers and eye-openers 409
The work and the gain 410
A scene at Brooklyn 411
At Philadelphia 412
"Looking up the judge" 413
Improved social ways 414
Result of thirty-four readings 415
Shadow to the sunshine 416
Readings in a church 417
Change of plan 417
Baltimore women 418
Success in Philadelphia 419
Objections to coloured people 420
With Sumner at Washington 421
President Lincoln's dream 423
Interview with President Johnson 423
Washington audiences 424
A comical dog 425
Incident before a reading 426
The child and the doll 427
North-west tour