—“but even if I had prepared a speech I would not deliver it here to-day—” “Why not? Why not?” “I will tell you why frankly. I have been running my eyes over this immense hall where all the civilized nations of the globe are seen represented by their flags; but the flag of the most civilized nation, the German flag, is not there!” Footnote 27: “Sir, you are the living flag of Germany here!” Footnote 28: “M. de Girardin begins to flutter in the wind.” Footnote 29: “Thanks for the compliment, though I cannot accept it with all its implications, since I do not flutter in the wind!” Footnote 30: Bodenstedt gives the Russian’s word in German, the Frenchman’s in French, and the line “Jesus Christ” etc. in English, implying that this was said by the Archbishop of Canterbury or some other Englishman, though the speaker is not named.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 31: Here my correspondent was in error; Professor Suess does not think otherwise than his utterances indicate. Eduard Suess is one of our profoundest intellects and noblest characters.—B. S. Footnote 32: “_On n’humanise pas la guerre, on la condamne parce qu’on s’humanise_,” says Frédéric Passy.—B. S. Footnote 33: Tolstoi’s letter is in French.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 34: _Zusammengehörigkeit_, “together-belongingness.” Footnote 35: The original of Nobel’s letters is in French, except that of September 14, 1891, which is in English.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 36: The title of A. G. v. Suttner’s first novel with scene laid in the Caucasus. Footnote 37: The new lexical formations which this quotation professes to exemplify will be best seen in the original: _Keine Empfindelei, kein klingendes Wortgetöse. Sich-entschließen-wollen. Jeder in seiner Weise auch tun. Wir wollen praktische, wollen Verwirklichungs-, wollen Tatidealisten sein._ The translator finds himself unable to reproduce these compounds in English without losing their quality as “stylistic beauties”; for he does not recognize the language of recent newspaper headlines as English until he shall hear the same sort of language in conversation, or read it in letters, or at least see it in the newspapers themselves elsewhere than in headlines. Footnote 38: The longing for higher development, and the faith in it, _is_ religiousness.—B. S. Footnote 39: The letter of the Bishop of Durham is given by the Baroness in German, without any such note as she appends to the next letter. Presumably, then, the Bishop himself translated his English thoughts into German when he wrote. But even on this assumption the present version has substantially the character of a retranslation, and retranslations must be largely conjectural.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 40: That is, Brooke Foss Westcott.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 41: