Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents (Vol 2)

THIRTY YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THREE CONTINENTS VOL. 2

By Edwin De Leon

Excerpt from Contents CHAPTER I

Inside Confederacy

The Rebel Capital

President Davis and Secretary Benjamin send me through Blockade to Europe as Special Envoy

My Program

Go to Wilmington

What a Confederate Cotton Blockading Port was like

Curious Contrasts

Earl of Dunmore as a Blockade Breaker

The Steamer Theodora, "Pirate Maffitt," ordered to take me across

How we Managed it under Fire, and reached Nassau CHAPTER II

Interview with Lord Palmerston as to Southern Recognition

His Argument and Mine

Quarrel between Man and Wife

Personal Appearance and Characteristics of Lord Palmerston, a Man who was young to the end

Anecdote of Lady Palmerston CHAPTER III

In France

Public Opinion and the Press under the Empire

The Press System

Dardenne de la Grangerie of the Press Bureau

Due de Morny, his Characteristics

Count de Persigny

Reminiscences of, and Negotiations with, the Emperor at Vichy for Three Weeks

Garibaldi Breaks them Up

My Impressions of Louis Napoleon

Admiral Semmes' Last Night at Paris, before his Fight with the Kerseage

His Characteristics CHAPTER IV

Reminiscences of Thackeray and Laurence Oliphant and of Mrs. Oliphant

Thackeray as he appeared in Private Life

The Man as distinguished from the Author CHAPTER V

Recollections of General Gordon and of Captain Burton during several Years' Intimacy with Both

Personal Peculiarities and Anecdotes concerning the Two

Attempt of Gordon to enlist Burton's Co-operation

Why it failed

Gordon's Methods and Burton's

A Word as to Stanley's

Lady Burton as a Woman and Authoress CHAPTER VI

At Constantinople

The City of Stamboul, and the European Colonies of Pera and Galata

Fresh Impressions on and after Landing up the Hill to Pera

What it is like CHAPTER VII

A Friday Morning at Beschicktach

The Sultan at his Prayers

Incidents of the Ceremonial

Abdul Hamid's Conduct on such Occasions

His Personal Appearance and Peculiarities

The History of Beschicktach, the Turkish Windsor

Memories of Dead Sultans, and of one Buried Alive

Artin Pacha Dadian, Under Secretary of State CHAPTER VIII

A Summer on the Upper Bosphorus

Up and Down in Steamer and Caique

Therapia and Buyukdere, the Summer Resorts of the Diplomatic Corps, and European Society

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