im a writer on the Balkans. I know not whether he
addressed to his Government a dispatch on the above discovery, thus
intensifying the Italian resolve to cling to Dalmatia. In that case
his knowledge was unfortunate, but otherwise it is surely as
delightful as, up here among the tree-clad mountains, are the
glow-worms that go darting through the night.

BLAGOVE[vS]TENJE MONASTERY, CENTRAL SERBIA.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Cf. _The Near East_, October 6, 1921.]

[Footnote 2: _Observations of Count Romanzoff_,--Petrograd,
March 16, 1808,--Concerning the negotiations for the division
of Turkey, as to which he treated with the French Ambassador;
being Document No. 263 of the Excerpts from the Paris
Archives relating to the History of the first Serbian
Insurrection. Collected (Belgrade, 1904) by the learned
statesman and charming man, Dr. Michael Gavrilovi['c], now
the Minister of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
at the Court of St. James.]

[Footnote 3: This, the most ancient diocese in Serbia, takes
its name from the monastery of [vZ]i[vc]a, near Kraljevo,
which was built by St. Sava between 1222 and 1228. He made it
his archiepiscopal residence, and here the Serbian sovereigns
were crowned. It is now partly in a ruined condition, the
encircling wall having almost entirely vanished. For each
coronation a new entrance was made through this structure and
was afterwards walled up. Bishop Nicholai has now been
transferred to the more difficult diocese of Ochrida and is,
at the same time, Bishop of the Serbs in America.]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

PAGE
PREFACE 9

INTRODUCTION: THE TRAGEDY OF A FRONTIER 23

I. GLORY AND DISASTER (EARLIEST DAYS TO THE BATTLE
OF KOSSOVO) 26

II. FIGHTING THE DARKNESS (BATTLE OF KOSSOVO TO THE
APPEARANCE OF KARA GEORGE) 50

III. BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS: NAPOLEON AND STROSSMAYER 90

IV. THE SHIFTING SANDS OF MACEDONIA (1876-1914) 165

V. THE EUROPEAN WAR (1914-1918) 225

INDEX 301

THE BIRTH OF YUGOSLAVIA

INTRODUCTION

THE TRAGE