General Türr’s visit at Harmannsdorf. Anecdotes from his life. Garibaldi’s appeal to the governments. Our journey to Budapest. Reception and preliminary festival. Opening of the Congress. From Türr’s address. The historical Millennial Exposition. Élie Ducommun gives a report on the year’s events. Debate: Armenian horrors. Address to the pope. Letter from Dr. Ofner. Excursion to the Margareteninsel. The youngest member of the Congress. Exciting debate about dueling. Nepluief and his institution. Deputation from the Society for the Protection of Animals. Conclusion of the Congress. Preliminary festival of the Conference. Soirée at the Parkklub. Opening session in the House of Magnates. Second session. Soirée at the Prime Minister’s. From the protocol. Apponyi on the participation of Russia in the conferences. The Russian consul Vasily and his action. Excursion into the future. Visit at Maurus Jókai’s. Gala operatic performance. End of the Conference. Opening of the “Iron Gate.” L. OTHER EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1896 134 Jingo criticism of Budapest. A prophetic chapter from _Schach der Qual_. A poem by Hoyos and a letter from Nathaniel Rothschild. Visits of the Tsar. Extracts from diary. Correspondence between the Austrian Peace Society and the English Department of Foreign Affairs. Treaty of peace between Menelik and Italy. LI. ALFRED NOBEL’S DEATH AND WILL 141 News of his death. His last letter to me. The will. Letter from Moritz Adler. The will is contested. Letter from the executor. Emanuel Nobel’s noble act. Fortunate solution. Distribution of the peace prize up to date. LII. FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR 1897 148 From my collections of letters. Signing of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. The ratification fails by three votes. Insurrection in Crete. The concert of the powers. Outbreak of the Turko-Grecian War. Extracts from diary. The letter “to all good men” from Fortress Montjuich. Letter from Prince Scipione Borghese. Our literary labors. My audience with Emperor Franz Joseph I. Text of the petition submitted. LIII. SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR 1897 161 Letter from Count Eugen Zichy. The Eighth Peace Congress at Hamburg. Letter from Prince Emil Schönaich-Carolath. Egidy’s début. Regarding the assassination of Canova. Public meeting in the Sagebiel. Egidy’s speech. New adherents. Henri Dunant. Appeal to the Oriental peoples. Extracts from diary. Bad news from all sides. Attitude of the press. The Russian Emperor in Darmstadt. Letter from Marie Büchner. The Dreyfus affair. Dispatch of the European squadron to the Yellow Sea. LIV. A STIRRING HALF YEAR 176