The Review of Reviews. 



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The paradoxical cartoon below— showing how the spiritual forces 

 behind the Balkan States have actually impaled the Power which 

 trusted but to brute force and violence— recalls Shelley's lines :— 



'■ The moon of Mahomet 

 Arose, and it shall set • 

 While blazoned as on Heaven's eternal noon 

 The Cross leads generations on." 



Daily Hciahl.l [London 



Cross and Crescent — Turkey, 1912. 



" And the meek shall inherit'the earth." 



The Remorse of Europe. 



Europe, who has allowed Catholic Poland to be torn to 

 pieces, may take upon herself the interdiction of Mussulman 



massacres ! 



Trouble in the Balkans. 



[London. 



Kladderadatsch.] [Berlin. 



The Battering-Ram of the new Knight of the Cross ; 



or, breaking into the high door. 



If the door should be difficult to open, Ferdinand— m hoc 

 signo vinces I 



[The Chancelleries of Europe are much exercised by the 

 dramatic development of the Balkan Confederacy.] 



The Capitalistic Powers (in unison for once) : " Why, 

 the inconsiderate man seems to have grown strong enough to 

 redress his own grievances ! Tut ! Tut ! — this is very wrong- 

 headed ; he cannot have thought how difficult this makes it 

 for us to find good moral justification for having a finger in 

 the pie I " 



