MEMOIRS OF BERTHA VON SUTTNER THE RECORDS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION VOLUME II PUBLISHED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PEACE GINN AND COMPANY, BOSTON AND LONDON 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY GINN AND COMPANY ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED =The Athenæum Press= GINN AND COMPANY · PROPRIETORS BOSTON · U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II PART SEVEN (CONTINUED) PAGE XL. FROM HARMANNSDORF AND FROM CHICAGO 3 Slow increase. Far-reaching endeavors from our quiet corner. Childlessness. With Aunt Lotti. My brother. The World’s Fair at Chicago, and the Peace Congress. Olga Wisinger-Florian. I am represented by Olga Wisinger. Congress of Religions. Petition of the various ecclesiastical bodies to the governments in favor of a court of arbitration. XLI. VASÍLI VERESHCHÁGIN 9 Vereshchágin in Vienna. He does the honors at his exhibition. “All Quiet before Plevna.” “Apotheosis of War.” Moltke standing before this picture. A picture of what Vereshchágin himself had seen during the war and painted. Concerning a picture which he could not paint. Further reminiscences of his military life. His Napoleon pictures. A remark of William II regarding them. War and hunting. XLII. THE COMMITTEE MEETING AT BRUSSELS AND ITS RESULTS 15 Committee meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Brussels. Letter from Senator Trarieux. Address to Gladstone. Address to the French and Italian deputies. Warning as to the duties of the Union. The “inevitable war” between France and Italy. The case of Aigues-Mortes. Settlement through the friends of peace in both countries. XLIII. FROM DIARY AND PORTFOLIO 24 Extracts from diary. Caprivi in support of the military bill. Bebel’s interpellation. Invention of a bullet-proof cloth. Settlement of the Bering question. King Alexander to his Servians. Dynamite tragedies in Spain. Visit of the Russian fleet at Toulon. Marcoartu’s letter to me. His letter to Jules Simon. General inquiry of the Paris _Figaro_ as to a gift for the Tsaritsa. My answer to it. Exchange of letters with Émile Zola. XLIV. VARIOUS INTERESTING LETTERS 37 Increase of correspondence. Countess Hedwig Pötting. Gift from Duke von Oldenburg. Schloss Erlaa. The duke’s consort. Peace efforts of Prince Peter von Oldenburg thirty years ago. Letter from this prince to Bismarck. Letter from Björnstjerne Björnson.