[1] H. Rosendal, The Problem of Danish Slesvig.

[2] Madame Hegermann-Lindencrone is the author of In the Court of Memory and The Sunny Side of Diplomacy.

[3] On the outbreak of the war, the Grand Duchess threw off her allegiance to Germany, and resumed her Russian citizenship.

[4] Baron Speck von Sternberg died on May 23rd, 1908.

[5] 'We can say without hesitation that during the last century the United States have nowhere found better understanding or juster recognition than in this country. More than any one else the Emperor William II. manifested this understanding and appreciation of the United States of America.'—Von BÜlow's Imperial Germany, p. 51.

[6] MalmÖ is a town on the Swedish side of the Sound, an hour and a half by steamboat from Copenhagen. Lord Bothwell was imprisoned there.

[7] Scribner's Magazine.

[8] I regret that I cannot give the story in the rhyme, which was Bavarian French.

[9] The Army Bill of 1913 'met with such a willing reception from all parties as has never before been accorded to any requisition for armaments on land or at sea.'—Von BÜlow's Imperial Germany, p. 201.

[10] The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament, by Sir William M. Ramsay. Hodder and Stoughton.

[11] Dr.J.P. Bang's translation. Doctor Bang deserves well of all lovers of freedom for his translation into Danish of typical sermons from German pastors possessed of the spirit of hatred. Dr. Bang is a professor of theology in the University of Copenhagen. It ought to be remembered that the University of Copenhagen, in a neutral country geographically part of Germany, made no protest against the audacious volume.

[12] Devoted to France, the friend of M. Jusserand; a great romance philologer.

[13] 'My old commander, the late General Field-Marshal Freiheer von LoË, a good Prussian and a good Catholic, once said to me that, in this respect, matters would not improve until the well-known principle of French law "que la recherche de la paternitÉ Était interdite" is changed to "la recherche du confessional Était interdite."'—Von BÜlow: Imperial Germany, p. 185.

[14] In Rome, 'the proletariat' meant the people who had children.

[15] Mr. Thomas P. Gill is the permanent Secretary of the Irish Agricultural and Technical Board.

[16] Dr. Francis Hagerup, Norwegian Minister to Copenhagen, now at Stockholm. Count Szchenyi, Austro-Hungarian Minister, SeÑor de RiaÑo, now Spanish Minister at Washington.

[17] In The War and the Bagdad Railway. J.B. Lippincott & Co.

[18] Of all the many young men I knew in England and Ireland, most of them the sons or grandsons of old friends, there are only three alive; two of them, the sons of Mr. Thomas P. Gill, of the Irish Technical and Agricultural Board, have been made invalids in the war.