us by
fog and clouds. After supper we called at the American consulate.
Think of our government supporting a consul in most of the
twenty-two cantons of Switzerland!

Tuesday.--At Munich. We saw princes and princesses galore out
driving this afternoon, but not the king. We leave tomorrow morning
for Nuremberg, and reach Berlin Saturday, and there I hope to rest
at least a week--but then the Emperor William must be seen, and
lots of other curiosities.... If I could command the money, as soon
as each of our girls graduated, I would take her first on a tour of
her own continent and then through the old world, before she
settled down to the hard work of life either in a profession or in
marriage. Thus she would have much to think of and live over, no
matter how heavy might be the burdens and sorrows of her after
life....

COLOGNE, May 8.

MY DEAR SISTER: We left Berlin yesterday morning after a delightful
week with the Sargents. I do not believe our nation ever has been
represented at any foreign court by such genuine republican women,
in the truest and broadest sense, as are Mrs. Sargent and her
daughters. Mr. Sargent, too, touches the very height of democratic
principle. Their association with monarchial governments and
subjects but makes them love our free institutions the more.[16]

Our last evening was spent with the Frau Dr. Liburtius--formerly
Henriette Hirschfeldt--a practicing dentist in Berlin since 1869,
who studied at the Philadelphia Dental College. No college in
Germany will admit women. Frau Libertius is dentist for various
members of the royal family as well as for the Sisters of Charity.
She says there are no dental colleges in the world equal to those
of America....

May 10.--At Worms--where Martin Luther made his glorious
declaration for the right of private judgment. There is a
magnificent monument in a beautiful square; Luther's is the central
statue--a standing one; below, at the corners, are sitting Huss,
Savonarola, Wycliffe and Peter Waldo, and on a still lower pedestal
are four more worthies--one of them Melancthon.... We spent Tuesday
at Cologne--visited the splendid cathedral and the church of St.
Ursula. The latter contains the bones of 11,000 virgins marty