Warm and most respectful congratulations to you and your husband from the depths of my heart! What feelings it must arouse in you! the noblest of all joyful emotions! That I have lived to see this day I regard as the most incomprehensible and the most surprising delight of my life, which has been so rich in sorrows and so lean in hope. I could not have dreamed of this most noteworthy _ex oriente lux_, when in _Wenn ich Kaiser oder König wäre_ (“If I were Emperor or King”) I attempted to bind the laurel of this day around the temples of William I, or when in “The Strike” I let a wise prince pour out his heart as he stood facing the unripe nations. Now the dream has come true, and may these forever sleeping nations and inert consciences be aroused with the sound of the trumpet! Goethe hit it: Thy spirit world is not forbidden; Thy heart is dead; thy wits are slow! Wake! student, lave thy breast unchidden Within the ruddy morning glow! I consider myself happy to be able to share your delight. Most respectfully yours Moritz Adler Porto Rose near Pirano, August 31 My heartiest congratulations that your indefatigable endeavors continued throughout long years in the interest of universal peace have suddenly, by means of a word on the Neva, brought such a surprising and brilliant victory into happy prospect! With heart and hand Dr. Karl von Scherzer Minister Plenipotentiary (retired) Munich, August 30 ... The Tsar has done a splendid thing. Whatever may come of it, from now on the air is throbbing with thoughts of peace,—even where yesterday they were deemed impossible. This will bring great and unexpected results. Now the Anglo-American treaty will be ratified, and ultimately all Germans will be at one—in such an air all things can come about. You see! it is worth while to preach, to have faith, to be a prophet, energetically and incessantly! Björnstjerne Björnson Vienna, August 30 Congratulations from the bottom of my heart! Salvos of victory! Now will the great socialist politicians still continue to scorn us! Balduin Groller Sondja, October, 1898