ART.

Thick fell the snow upon St. George's day;
The little birds all left their cloudy bed;
The maiden wander'd bare-foot on her way;
Her brother bore her sandals, and he said:
"O sister mine! cold, cold thy feet must be."
"No! not my feet, sweet brother! not my feet--
But my poor heart is cold with misery.
There's nought to chill me in the snowy sleet:
My mother--'tis my mother who hath chill'd me,
Bound me to one who with disgust hath fill'd me."

LIBERTY.

Nightingale sings sweetly
In the verdant forest:
In the verdant forest,
On the slender branches.

Thither came three sportsmen,
Nightingale to shoot at.
She implored the sportsmen,
"Shoot me not, ye sportsmen!

"Shoot me not, ye sportsmen!
I will give you music,
In the verdant garden,
On the crimson rose-tree."

But the sportsmen seize her;
They deceive the songster,
In a cage confine her,
Give her to their loved one.

Nightingale will sing not--
Hangs its head in silence:
Then the sportsmen bear her
To the verdant forests.

Soon her song is waken'd;
Woe! woe! woe betide us,
Friend from friend divided,
Bird from forest banish'd!

BROTHERLESS SISTERS.

Two solitary sisters, who
A brother's fondness never knew,
Agreed, poor girls, with one another,
That they would make themselves a brother:
They cut them silk, as snow-drops white;
And silk, as richest rubies bright;
They carved his body from a bough
Of box-tree from the mountain's brow;

Two jewels dark for eyes they gave;
For eyebrows, from the ocean's wave
They took two leeches; and for teeth
Fix'd pearls above, and pearls beneath;
For food they gave him honey sweet,
And said, "Now live, and speak, and eat."

PRINTED BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN.

PHOTOS

[Illustration: KING PETER.]

[Illustration: CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER]

[Illustration: PREMIER N.???]

[Illustration: KING The fourteenth century]

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[Illustration: DURING TURKISH RULE IN SERBIA. Serbs?? away?? the????]

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[Illustration: THE SECOND SERBIAN REVOLUTION OF 1815.]

[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF KALENIC. Built by Stephen the Tall.]

[Illustration: SERBIAN SOLDIERS WITH AN ENGLISH NURSE.]

[Illustration: SERBIAN OFFICERS