in
writing; but to this he never would consent. In 1835 he announced in
the official Gazette (_Novine Srpski_) that he was the "only master";
he set about gaining for his country the interest of foreign Powers.
England, which in 1837 sent Colonel Hodges as her agent to Belgrade,
was for having Serbia placed under the protection of the Great Powers.
Constitutional England was backing Milo[vs] and his despotism, while,
on the other hand, Russia and Turkey came out, to their own surprise,
as champions of a constitution. They demanded that the power of
Milo[vs] should be limited by something which they euphemistically
called "an organic regulation." Finally, there was imposed on him a
Senate consisting of members appointed for life, but when this body
asked him to account for the manner in which he had spent the public
funds the Prince found that he could not allow himself to be so
hampered and, in 1839, he abdicated. ("If," he once said, "if Charles
X. of France had understood how to govern as I myself did in Serbia,
he would never have lost his throne.") Vut[vc]i['c], his arch-enemy,
flung a stone after him into the Save. "You will not return," he
cried, "until a stone can float on these waters!" "I shall die as
Serbia's ruler!" shouted Milo[vs]. (And when he ultimately did come back
Vut[vc]i['c] was cast into prison, where he died mysteriously--Milo[vs]
refusing the Turks permission to examine the body.)

THE SLAV SOUL OF CROATIA

His democracy, in spite of his agrarian reforms, was very far from
that of Vuk, and far from that of a young noble of Croatia, Ljudevit
Gaj, who one evening in the drawing-room of Count Dra[vs]kovi['c]--the
same Count Dra[vs]kovi['c] who wrote in German, for such was the
spirit of the time, his Exhortation to Croatian Maidens that they
should be truly Croatian--well, in this gentleman's house at Zagreb
Ljudevit Gaj recites some verses he has written for a dowager. They
are in Slav. The audience is inclined to be amused. Of course they
know something of the language because, like Anastasius Gruen in the
Slovene country, they talk it to the servants. But among themselves in
Croatia the upper classes prefer to use Latin. There is no doubt, as
Count Louis Voinovi['c], a Yugoslav poet, has said, that this pursuit
of Latin brought into the Slav world much that is indispensable in
modern thought. It created among them an atmosphere of social
courtesy, which, according to Saint Francis of Assisi, i