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where I, as a lad of twenty, witnessed these things, will never leave me and the economic question will be stronger before my mind than the characters of the book. The pictures of twenty years ago will unfold themselves and drawn "Hühnchen" and his people.

Dickens pictures of the poor leave my blood still warm and I am gladly led by his hand into the hovels and dives of old England. There at least lives a Tradition, people have had ancestors eating steaks, if denied to themselves, and they may see steaks coming again to their progeny, but - not in Berlins suburbs.

Thakeray cannot be had on this ship.

The evening passed very pleasantly in company of Mr & Mrs Hopkinson Smith, Miss Kong the daughter of the great reformer of China, Prof. Bauer and his sister of Yale and another bright Chicago man whose name I didn't catch. his name is Mr. Houghtelin. Mrs. Smith is an impressive dame with fine jewels of the worth while kind.