Footnote 22:
All hail to weapons! They are man’s by right!
Let woman hold her tongue when men must fight.
And yet, ’tis true, in these days men are found
Who rather should in petticoats be gowned.
Footnote 23:
Corresponding (see top of page 353) nearly to our “Puss in the Corner.”
Footnote 24:
“We must make him speak, however we do it.”
“But he notified me himself, yesterday, that he has not prepared a
speech.”
“Call on him all the same; then he will have to say something!”
Footnote 25:
“Monsieur Friedrich Bodenstedt of Berlin has the floor!”
Footnote 26:
—“but even if I had prepared a speech I would not deliver it here
to-day—”
“Why not? Why not?”
“I will tell you why frankly. I have been running my eyes over this
immense hall where all the civilized nations of the globe are seen
represented by their flags; but the flag of the most civilized nation,
the German flag, is not there!”
Footnote 27:
“Sir, you are the living flag of Germany here!”
Footnote 28:
“M. de Girardin begins to flutter in the wind.”
Footnote 29:
“Thanks for the compliment, though I cannot accept it with all its
implications, since I do not flutter in the wind!”
Footnote 30:
Bodenstedt gives the Russian’s word in German, the Frenchman’s in
French, and the line “Jesus Christ” etc. in English, implying that this
was said by the Archbishop of Canterbury or some other Englishman,
though the speaker is not named.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 31:
Here my correspondent was in error; Professor Suess does not think
otherwise than his utterances indicate. Eduard Suess is one of our
profoundest intellects and noblest characters.—B. S.
Footnote 32:
“_On n’humanise pas la guerre, on la condamne parce qu’on s’humanise_,”
says Frédéric Passy.—B. S.
Footnote 33:
Tolstoi’s letter is in French.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 34:
_Zusammengehörigkeit_, “together-belongingness.”
Footnote 35:
The original of Nobel’s letters is in French, except that of September
14, 1891, which is in English.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 36:
The title of A. G. v. Suttner’s first novel with scene laid in the
Caucasus.
Footnote 37:
The new lexical formations which this quotation professes to exemplify
will be best seen in the original: _Keine Empfindelei, kein klingendes
Wortgetöse. Sich-entschließen-wollen. Jeder in seiner Weise auch tun.
Wir wollen praktische, wollen Verwirklichungs-, wollen Tatidealisten
sein._ The translator finds himself unable to reproduce these compounds
in English without losing their quality as “stylistic beauties”; for he
does not recognize the language of recent newspaper headlines as English
until he shall hear the same sort of language in conversation, or read
it in letters, or at least see it in the newspapers themselves elsewhere
than in headlines.
Footnote 38:
The longing for higher development, and the faith in it, _is_
religiousness.—B. S.
Footnote 39:
The letter of the Bishop of Durham is given by the Baroness in German,
without any such note as she appends to the next letter. Presumably,
then, the Bishop himself translated his English thoughts into German
when he wrote. But even on this assumption the present version has
substantially the character of a retranslation, and retranslations must
be largely conjectural.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 40:
That is, Brooke Foss Westcott.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 41:
An article by Björnson, in which he relates this anecdote: “A German
lady betrothed to a German officer was making a journey through Norway.
Certain persons were talking with her about the war that might soon
break out over Alsace-Lorraine, and some one said it would be best if
Alsace-Lorraine could dispose of itself in accordance with its own will.
At this the German lady replied, ‘Rather than that, two million
soldiers, my fiancé among them, should lie dead on the battlefield!’”
Footnote 42:
The Baroness inserts “_sic!_” probably with reference to the wording of
her own letter rather than of Hirsch’s.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 43:
Upper and Lower Dannewitz are in Moravia, fifty miles or so north of
Vienna. Grimm says that to speak of the Lord God of one or another town
is a popular German form of asseveration, probably originating from the
former presence of a miracle-working image of Christ in the place
named.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 44:
Minister von Roggenbach.
Footnote 45:
In the German “E.-L.,” of course.—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 46:
The main thing in Professor Wilhelm Förster’s life in 1892 was the
founding of the German Society for Ethical Culture.—TRANSLATOR.
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