1900 or 1901. Address to the Powers. Letters from Henryk Sienkiewicz. Letter from the Prince of Mingrelia. Count Apponyi’s press scheme. The Interparliamentary Conference at Paris. Count Apponyi on the Conference. Dr. Clark’s action regarding Chamberlain and President Kruger. _Altera pars._ The troubles in China. Letters from Yang-Yü to my husband. The Peace Congress at Paris. The Bloch family. Madame Séverine. The Exposition. Dinner at Professor Charles Richet’s. Miss Alice Williams. Literary work. Nomination of the Hague judges. Letters from Martens and Schönborn. D’Estournelles’s lecture in Vienna. Dr. Holls’s mission. Our silver wedding. Letter from Tolstoi. First assignment of the Nobel prizes. Dunant’s thanks. Decennial celebration of the Union. Letters of congratulation from Passy, Szell, Schönborn, D’Estournelles, Chlumecky, Rosegger, and Björnson. LXIII. THE LAST YEAR 379 Premonitions. Bloch’s death. The Transvaal. Stanhope on the situation. My husband’s sudden illness. Three letters. Congress in Monaco. The Oceanographic Museum. Prince Albert I. The corrective. Pierre Quillard on the Armenian horrors. The crag castle. Venetian night. The Duke of Urach. From Prince Albert’s after-dinner speech. A dedication to the German Emperor. Return home. An act of D’Estournelles’s. The first controversy before the Hague Tribunal. Opening of the Bloch Museum at Lucerne. Anti-dueling League. A letter from Prince Alfonso de Borbon. Offer for a lecture tour in the United States. Hodgson Pratt on America. Visits of Emanuel Nobel and Princess Tamara of Georgia at Harmannsdorf. Sojourn in Ellischau. A surprise. Adjournment of the Interparliamentary Conference at Vienna. The end. From the will. Provisional conclusion. What is yet to follow. SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER, 1904 THREE WEEKS IN AMERICA 405 The Bremen Rathauskeller. The Emperor’s beaker. A peaceful voyage. A ship on fire. A curious contradiction. The Statue of Liberty. Tariff vandals. The first interviewers. First impression of New York. Old comrades. The “yellow press.” The Interparliamentary Conference. Secretary Hay’s address. Public meetings. Russia and Japan shake hands. A Chinese lady. The Boston Public Library. Sojourn in New York. The “smart set.” Carl Schurz. The Waldorf-Astoria. The worship of bigness. At the Pulitzers’. The _World_. Philadelphia. Fairmount Park. Two days in Washington. A conversation with Roosevelt. “Universal peace is coming.” A peace meeting at Cincinnati. Niagara Falls. An advertising monstrosity. A visit in Ithaca. INDEX 431 PART SEVEN [CONTINUED] XL FROM HARMANNSDORF AND FROM CHICAGO