13+: an attache in Berlin in the 1870s, with accounts of Wilhelm I, Bismarck, &c
17: "The frieze in the White Hall of the palace: Victorious Warfare Fostering Art, Trade, the Sciences & Industry"
23: an account of Wagner's idolized treatment at the Berlin court. "Surely you know the Master likes only Limburger cheese".
30: Bismarck stoutly maintained that efficiency, wherever it was found, was due to Teutonic blood: "a statement with which I will not quarrel". Bismarck could not brook the smallest contradiction, or any criticism whatever
49: Berlin was a very fine frame enclosing no picture
52: Russians do not say Tsar, but Gosudar Imperator
67: Es gibt nur ein Kaiserstadt, das heisst Wien
Es gibt nur ein Raeubersnest, das heisst Berlin
81: The German Crown Prince & Princess recalled many trivial half‑forgotten details about his family
101: Bismarck's remark that the Slav people were essentially feminine
130: In Spring 1880, a bomb went off in the Winter Palace. There were found to be many moujiks living in the attics, and a cow
165: Russians are essentially Orientals
168: I think that the Slavonic bent of mind, like the Celtic, is purely destructive and has little or no constructive power in it
171: The educated classes [in Finland] are mostly Swedish‑speaking; the others talking their own impossible Ural‑Altaic language
212: Dr. ‑‑‑, in spite of being Indian by blood, spoke the most correct & finished Spanish
274: his delight in the bird life and the pampas: "I always wanted to shout & sing from sheer delight at being part of it" [the only expression of joy in the book]
275: His friendship with a long‑legged ("clean limbed") Australian
341: The native prince [in India] had been warned in the bluntest of language that unless he mended his ways at once, he would be forthwith deposed and another ruler put in his place
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