Thus these three weeks in America have flown like a dream, and I am again on board, homeward bound—richer in magnificent impressions, with my mental horizon enlarged more than I had ever dreamed possible. I have looked through a new window—hastily, I must confess, and through only a narrow opening—into the universe.

INDEX

[1]. Sergyeï Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin. Still another brother, Alexander Vasilgevitch Vereshchágin, was wounded in the same campaign, and gives vivid pictures of the horrors of the march in his volume, “At Home and in War.”

[2]. Session of June 10, 1893.—B. S.

[3]. In the course of this speech Gladstone made the statement, “Militarism is indeed a most terrible curse for civilization.”—B. S.

[4]. The justified hope of the proposer was that a definitive peace (definitivum) would develop from this provisional one (provisorium.)

[5]. Even to-day reason is not yet heeded, because the all-powerful megaphone of the political press is closed to it.—B. S.

[6]. “What would you have us do? We are the weak, the vanquished; but as soon as there are propositions of disarmament coming from the victors we are ready to enter into negotiations.”