An article by Björnson, in which he relates this anecdote: “A German lady betrothed to a German officer was making a journey through Norway. Certain persons were talking with her about the war that might soon break out over Alsace-Lorraine, and some one said it would be best if Alsace-Lorraine could dispose of itself in accordance with its own will. At this the German lady replied, ‘Rather than that, two million soldiers, my fiancé among them, should lie dead on the battlefield!’” Footnote 42: The Baroness inserts “_sic!_” probably with reference to the wording of her own letter rather than of Hirsch’s.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 43: Upper and Lower Dannewitz are in Moravia, fifty miles or so north of Vienna. Grimm says that to speak of the Lord God of one or another town is a popular German form of asseveration, probably originating from the former presence of a miracle-working image of Christ in the place named.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 44: Minister von Roggenbach. Footnote 45: In the German “E.-L.,” of course.—TRANSLATOR. Footnote 46: The main thing in Professor Wilhelm Förster’s life in 1892 was the founding of the German Society for Ethical Culture.—TRANSLATOR. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Denoted superscripts by a caret before a single superscript character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.