Early Days in New Hampshire — My Father and Mother — Mr. Emerson's School at Boston — Daniel Webster at Marshfield — Visit to Washington — "Tyler Too" — Charles Dickens — Along the Ohio and Down the Mississippi — The Carved Oxen at Nauvoo — Joseph Smith and the Mormons
Visit to Dubuque and the Wisconsin Prairies — A Steamboat Trip through the Great Lakes with Mr. Van Buren and J. K. Paulding — Chicago and Mayor Ogden — James Russell Lowell and Maria White — A Visit to the "Experiment" at Brook Farm — Mr. Ripley, Mr. Curtis, Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller
Washington in the Forties — General Franklin Pierce — The Mexican War — John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Calhoun, Benton, and Clay — A Sight for Northern "Doughfaces" — The 7th. of March Speech — Chester Harding — Two Stories of Webster — President Taylor's Inauguration — State Balls and Dinners — The Society of the Capital Half a Century Ago
Early Simplicity in Dress and Manners — My Wedding-dress and my Marriage — A Novel Wedding Trip — St Thomas and Santa Cruz — A Celebrated Lawsuit and a Unique Christmas Festival — Havana — Rachel, the Famous French Actress, Visited the United States in 1854 — Fanny Kemble — Thackeray's Visit to America — The Purchase and Restoration of Mount Vernon
The Visit of the Prince of Wales — The Ball at the Academy of Music — The First Days of the War — The Sanitary Commission — The Metropolitan Fair — Washington in 1863 — General McClellan and the French Princes — A Ball at the White House and Picnics in Camp
Some Memories of Distinguished People — The New England Literati — Mrs. Sigourney and Miss Sedgwick — Dr. Bellows and the Transcendentalists — Mr. Bryant's Dinners — Recollections of Booth — The Iago Dress — Chief-Justice Chase — Sherman and Grant — Adelaide Ristori
A Glimpse at Literary Boston — Prescott, Emerson, and Agassiz — Darley's Picture of Washington Irving and His Friends — The Knickerbocker Magazine — Mrs. Botta's Salon — Reminiscences of Bancroft and Bryant — A Birthday at the Century Club — Longfellow
My First Visit to England — Chester Cathedral — Sunshine in London — Westminster Abbey and the British Museum — English Art — At the English Dinner table — Our American Hospitality an Inherited Virtue — Oxford, Kenilworth, and Stratford-on-Avon — The English Attitude towards America
The Social Side of London — Sir William Stirling-Maxwell and Sir John Bowring — Mr. Motley and General Adam Badeau — A Visit to Hampton Court — Racial Characteristics and Differentiation — The Lord Byron Scandal Again — A Page of Unwritten History — Across the Channel to Paris
A Little Journey in the Land of William Tell — Basle and Lucerne — On the Way to Interlaken — The Jungfrau and the Giesbach — Byron and Voltaire — Geneva and Mont Blanc — An Ascent of the Brevent — Over the Simplon Road and through the Gorge of Gondo — On the Italian Slope
The New York of Twenty Years Ago — Social and Geographical Changes — Grace Church and "Old Brown" — Three of New York's Distinguished Hostesses — Mrs. Roberts's Dinner to President and Mrs. Hayes — Mr. Evarts and his Donkey Story — Travers and Jerome — Bret Harte — George Boker and Calvert — Our School for Scandal
Second Visit to London — A Day in the House of Commons — London in 1885 — The Ascot Races and Dr. Holmes — My Presentation at Court and a State Ball at Buckingham Palace — A Supper with Irving at the Beefsteak Club — Mr. Gladstone and the Chapel Royal — A Dinner with Sir John Millais — Mr. Browning, Sir Frederic Leighton, Mrs. Procter, and Du Maurier
My Continental Note-book — The Praise of Paris — Meissonier and Politics — The Salon of 1886 — "Varnishing Day" — Sara Bernhardt's "Theodora" — Nice and Monte Carlo — La Duchesse de Pomar, Lady Caithness — A Sad Loss to the American Colony
Imperial Rome — The American Colony — W. W. Story, Bishop Whipple, and the Terrys — My Presentation at the Italian Court — A Ball at the Quirinal — Lord Houghton — Two Valentines — Modern Rome — The Vatican Library and Gardens
The Queen's Jubilee — London in Gala Dress — The Queen's Garden Party — A Dash into Holland and the Low Countries — Dikes and Ditches — Picture-galleries and Windmills — Rotterdam and Amsterdam — The Zuyder Zee and a Day at Marken — Forgotten Bruges and Prosperous Ghent — Antwerp and The Hague — Ostend the Frivolous
In Praise of Aix-les-Bains — Its Cures and Its Amusements — Rousseau's House — La Grande Chartreuse and Its Famous Liqueur — An Exercise in Russian Linguistics — The Marriage of the DuC d'Aosta — A Mediaeval Fête — The Queen of Italy and Her Royal Graces — The House of Savoy and Its Early Home at Aix — English Visitors — Princess Beatrice's Birthday
Letters from Spain — Barcelona and Tarragona — Roman, Carthaginian, and Moorish Antiquities — The Land of Don Quixote — Cordova and Its Mosque — Granada and the Alhambra — Fair Seville — The Donkey in Spain
Letters from Spain to Friends at Home — Further Thoughts of Madrid — At the Bull-flght — Toledo, the Majestic Crown of Spain — The Cathedral and Its Memories — Moorish Houses and Toledo Blades — The Escorial — The Library — The Pantheon — Burgos and Farewell to Spain
An Imaginary Conversation with an Editor — The Effect of Fashion on our Social Life — Our American Society and Its Leaders — Snobs and Snobbery — Society and Its Mission in Our National Life — King Fashion and His Power — A Last Word
