J. Novikof. Reception at the Baroness Grovestins’s. Dr. Holls. Utterances of the nationalistic press. Excursion to Scheveningen. We give a small dinner. Threatening letter to Herr von Staal. At Ten Kate’s. Reports from Descamps. Beernaert on the Geneva Convention. Letter from Levysohn. Results in the matter of mediation. New acquaintances. First of Bloch’s evening lectures: subject, “The Development of Firearms.” Stead publishes a daily chronicle on the Conference. Young Vasily’s album. Removal to Scheveningen. Baron Pirquet brings a letter from the Interparliamentary Union of Brussels. Bloch’s second lecture: subject, “Mobilization.” My birthday. Dinner at Okoliczany’s. Lieutenant Pichon. Letters from aëronauts. Discussion on the permanent tribunal. President Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner. An amusing incident. Bloch’s third lecture: subject, “Naval Warfare.” A conversation with Léon Bourgeois. His call to Paris. False reports and denials. What Emperor Nicholas said to Stead. Rumor of the blocking of the arbitration business. Bloch’s final lecture: subject, “The War of the Future.” LX. THE FIRST PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE (CONCLUDED) 294 Turning point in the arbitration question. Professor Zorn. Madame Ratazzi. Professor Martens. Mirza Rhiza Khan. Letter from Frau Büchner. Trip to Amsterdam. At the photographer’s. Limitation of armaments. Two important sessions. Colonel von Schwarzhoff. Limitation rejected. Baron Bildt and Bourgeois. Ball at Staal’s. The Grotius celebration. Letter from Andrew D. White. Article 27. Departure. International Inquiry Commission. Beldimann in opposition. Again the Inquiry Commission. Beldimann’s ultimatum. _Acte final._ LXI. AFTER THE HAGUE CONFERENCE 327 Journey to Norway to the ninth Interparliamentary Conference. The woman’s movement in the North. Military honors shown the friends of peace. Evening before the Conference. Björnstjerne Björnson. Opening in the Storthing. A _mot_ by Minister Steen. Report on the Nobel foundation. Garden party at Steen’s. Henrik Ibsen. At M. Catusse’s. Excursion to Frognersättern. Last session. Message from The Hague. Final banquet. Björnson as a speaker. My interview with him. Harmannsdorf again. Aunt Büschel’s death. Margarete Suttner’s betrothal. Letter from Count Apponyi. What then constituted my life. A physician’s prescription. Controversy between the jingoes and pacifists in England. End of the Dreyfus affair. Germany’s naval plan. The South African war breaks out. Letter from Count Nigra. LXII. THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 347