The Last Leaf eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 289 pages of information about The Last Leaf.

The Last Leaf eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 289 pages of information about The Last Leaf.
Fillmore, Millard, as a friend, 2; signs the Fugitive Slave Bill, 3; effects of the measure, 3; his home-life, 4; with Lincoln at church, 5 Fiske, John, in youth, 168 and Mary Hemenway, 169; the “Extension of Infancy,” 170; his love for music, 174; in social life, 175; at Petersham, 178 France, in war-time, 151 Francis Joseph, the Emperor, 141 Franciscan, the, at Salzburg, 307 Frederick, the Emperor, 139 Frederick the Great, his statue, 110; his sepulchre, 131 Freeman, Edward A., in America, 185; at Somerleaze, 186

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Gardiner, Samuel R., in London, 181; at Bromley, 183 Garnett, Sir Richard, at the British Museum, 179 Germany, in 1870, 108 Gladstone, W.E., in 1886, 200 Goethe and Schiller, their graves, 129 Grant, U.S., his greatest conquest, 28 Gray, Asa, in the Botanic Garden, 278; in the class-room, 279; as a lecturer, 281; his services to science, 282 Grenadier, the young, of Potsdam, 144; of Weimar, 145 Grey, Mr. William, see Stamford.  Grimm, the brothers, their graves, 128 Grimm, Hermann, at Berlin, 212

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Harrison, W.H., the campaign of 1840,1 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Concord, 239; at Brook Farm, 240; as a ghost-seer, 242; as literary artist, 243 Heidelberg, in 1870, 204 Helmholtz, the scientist, at Heidelberg, 268 Hohenzollern, the line of, 132 Hollis, 8; at Harvard, 161 Holmes, O.W., as an oarsman, 223; his versatility and wit, 224; his deeper moods, 226 Home-life, in Germany in 1870, 124 Howard, O.O., at Gettysburg, 47

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  Kirchoff, the physicist, at Heidelberg, 265

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Lepsius, the Egyptologist, 209 Lexington, Va., graves of R.E.  Lee and Stonewall Jackson at, 325 Lincoln, Abraham, at church, 5 Longfellow, H.W., in 1851, 218; the incubation of Hiawatha, 225; memorial service for, 221 Lowell, Charles R., as a soldier, 55 Lowell, James Russell, in his prime, 227; his Yankee story, 227; his Commemoration Ode, 229; his funeral, 232 Ludwig, King of Bavaria, 143 Luther, Martin, his grave at Wittenberg, 130

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  Mann, Horace, as an inspirer, 67
  Meade, George G., at the Harvard Commemoration, 29
  Militarism, in Germany, 111
  Mommsen, Theodor, at Berlin, 209
  Munich, in 1870, 148
  Museum, the Royal, at Berlin, 121

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New Wrinkle at Sweetbrier, 71 Newcomb, Simon, as a youth, 271; his parentage, 272; as an astronomer, 274; his last years, 276 Norman, Sir Henry, 197

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  Paris, in war-time, 152
  Parliament, in 1886, 195
  Pope, John, a pathetic figure, 42

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  Ranke, Leopold von, 207

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