Struve has taken up his abode, and now makes bold to re-issue one
of Russia's principal critical reviews, the "Russkaya Misl." Here in
Sofia is a Russian publishing house, which has printed a translation of
Wells' impressions of Bolshevik Russia, and "At the Feast of the Gods,"
by Bulgakof, and Struve's "Thoughts on the Revolution," new books of
value which suggest that the old Russia still lives.

Asked how the Bulgars behaved toward the Russians, a foreign and
therefore perhaps neutral diplomat replied: "The Bulgar will not do
anything for people in distress. He is an egoist. He'll let his own
father starve rather than sacrifice anything of his own. He has cause
to be eternally grateful to the Russians, and now he has a chance to
pay back something of what he owes, but not he. He treats the Russian
as a beggar and an inferior, just because he sees him in a state of
failure and misery."

A Serbian, asked whether Bulgars and Serbs could come to an
understanding, said "No, because when the Bulgars were put in power
over Serbs by the strength of German arms they set about abolishing the
Serbian nation. In a cold-blooded way they went through the whole of
Serbia, murdering and destroying. A nation like the Bulgars," said he,
"is incapable of friendship."

A Greek, asked, "Could there not be an entente between Greece and
Bulgaria, a burying of the hatchet," replied: "No, there is a mortal
vendetta between us. There is something in the Bulgarian which makes
our people see red."

When these matters were referred to a Bulgarian, he smiled, and said:
"We shall obtain the protection of England or France; that will be
enough. Bulgaria is impregnable against enemies. Let any nation try
and take Bulgaria and her mountains, see what it would cost in human
lives. But these wars, what is the use of them: does anyone ever gain
anything by them?"

Bulgaria gained her freedom by a war. But of that it seemed untactful
to remind this denizen of Sofia. Besides, he was a kind of Bolshevik.
If Bolshevism were to sweep Europe, he would not be put out of doors.
Bulgaria also would be in the political advance-guard of world-progress.

"You do compulsory communal labour in the fields every year, do you
not?"

"Such a law has been passed. You see, we are an agricultural people.
Food is our life. The war greatly disturbed our population, and it was
not easy to get labour, or to get it at a reasonable price. So
compulsory l