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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



March 1, 1913 



do<4" in the dissensions he anticipates. 

 He sa}s : — 



The whole history of the comitadjis in Ma-ce- 

 (lonia has shown that the Bulg'arian, who is not a 

 natiiraJ Slav but a Slavicised Arj'^n, is the most 

 robust and virile race in the Peninsula to-day, 

 and since the sucoess of this campaign has 

 awakened the slumbering ainibitions in both Serb 

 and Bulg'ar o^ a revival of their ancient empires. 

 it is obvious thai there is not room for both to 

 lie realised. As to which will go to the wall 

 there can be little doubt. If Servia is allowetl 

 to take possession of what was known as the 

 Koasovo vilayet or Old Servia she may find out 

 that there is some, truth in the old Greek pro- 

 verb, " The srifts of enemies are no gifts." 



By skilful diplomacy Servia has obtained in 

 the anticipatory division a larger share of the 

 spoils thaji is warranted by her racial preten- 

 sions or by her military assistai^ce. Bulgaria has 

 not forgotten this diijloniatic victory, and has 

 no intention of waiving her ambition. 



A FABLE FOR THE BALKANS. 

 Mr. Austin concludes with: — 



An Oriental fable relates tha.t a lion once 

 engaged a fox. a hyaena. a.nd. a jackal to hunt 

 down a fa.t stag. The three animals did so and 

 brought the carcase to the lion, who at oine 

 cut it in four sections. The iJon said, " Four of 

 us have agi-eed to kill this st<\.g. aiul before us 

 are four portions of the spoil. The first bit I 

 will take as being the senior partner in the 

 alliance; the second I will take as I gave yon 

 the idea; the third I will take as being the 

 strongest; and if you want to fight for the fourth 

 I'm ready to take you on." The philosopher who 

 wrote tha.t fa.ble must have foreseen the Balkan 

 Oon federation. 



WHY BULGARIA WON. 



The British Review contains an in- 

 teresting article on " Secrets of the Bul- 

 garian Victories " from the pen of 

 Philip Gibbs. who served The Graphic 

 as special war correspondent. The 

 whole nation responded as one man to 

 the call to arms ; in the words of the 

 writer : — - 



As I have said. King Ferdinand and his war 

 ministers called out not an army but a nation. 

 They were cruel in their clean sweep of the 

 nation's manhood. In the last reserve were boys 

 of sixteen ajul men past sixty years of age. No 

 one was spared from the roll-call. Professors 

 and painters, journalists, merchants, shopkeepers, 

 their shop assistants, schoolmasters and school- 

 boys, every kind and condition of Bulgarian, 

 were summoned in that general " mop-up " of the 

 national strength. It was cruel, but it was also 

 magnificent. For the call was answered with a 

 tremendous enthusiasm, and there were no eva- 

 sions, no deserters. 



Mr. Gibbs makes an interesting com- 

 parison which gives the reader a realis- 

 tic idea of the disturbance caused b\- 

 war : — 



Time and time again, when I sat among Bul- 

 garian officers, in the filthy little houses of 

 Turkish villages, in the valley of the Maritza. or 

 o!i the hills above AdriaTiople, and got into con- 

 versation with unshaven, dirty, mud-stained men. 

 who had lain in the trenches, or led cjuivoys 

 through the ciuagmires. who were living on army 

 bread and army soup, who were enduring all the 

 hardships and horrors of war, I was startled 



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THE TWO-HEADED RUSSIA>' BEAR. 



[Berlin. 



At this end he fawns. 



At that he swallows. 



