Essays written to accompany the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. "Checklist of the exhibition": p. 313-334. Includes indexes.

Francðois-Jean Marquis de Chastellux, French /by Alan Kors -- Pavel Svinín, Russian / by Abbott Gleason -- Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl), Austrian / by Christian Feest -- Frances Trollope, English / by Marcus Cunliffe -- Sndor Farkas Bölöni and Agostou Mokesai Haraszthy, Hungarian / by Anna Katona -- Alexis de Tocqueville, French / by Patrice Higonnet -- Harriet Martineau, English / by Marghanita Laski -- Fanny Kemble, English / by Duncan MacLeod -- Charles Dickens, English / by Philip Collins -- John Manjiråo, Japanese / by Lee Houchins -- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine / by Irving A. Leonard -- Fredrika Bremer, Swedish / by Signe Alice Rooth -- Louis Kossuth, Hungarian / by Elemer Bako -- The first Japanese mission to the United States, Japanese / by Tadashi Aruga -- William Howard Russell and Edward Dicey, English and Irish / by Esmond Wright -- Edward Wilmot Blyden, Liberian / by Henry S. Wilson -- Georges Clemenceau, French / by J.B. Duroselle -- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish / by Longin Pastusiak -- Charles Boissevain, Dutch / by A.N.J. den Hollander -- Bj²rnstjerne Bj²rnson and Halvdan Koht, Norwegian / by Sigmund Skard -- James Bryce, English / by Edmund Ions -- José Marti, Cuban / by José de Onís -- Antonin Dvoérák, Czech / by Ludmila Bradová -- Swami Vivekananda, Indian / by C.B. Tripathi -- Giuseppe Giacosa and Giacomo Puccini, Italian / by Benjamin Lawton -- Jon Butler Yeats, Irish / by Denis Donoghue -- Sholom Aleichem, Jewish / by Bel Kaufman -- Liang Ch§i-ch§ao and Hu Shih, Chinese / by Jerome B. Grieder -- H.G. Wells, English / by George Shepperson.