THE SERVIAN TRAGEDY 



RCI GD A HE THE WHITE CITY 

 DtLUKAUt . OF DEATH 



By Mrs NORTHESK WILSON 



Illustrated by a Series of Beautiful Photographs of Royal Personages, &c. 

 Demy 8vo. IDS. 6d. net. 



PRESS OPINIONS 



" The moment when the attention of Europe is concentrated on the 

 Balkan Peninsula is fitly chosen for the publication of the first detailed 

 account of the late tragedy at Belgrade. The event is still fresh in our 

 memories ; the issue of the settlement remains uncertain ; and Servian 

 politics now form an episode in the great drama of the Near East." 

 Daily News. 



" ' Belgrade, the White City of Death,' is the rather grandiose title of a 

 book by Mrs Northesk Wilson dealing with the recent revolution in the 

 Servian capital and the tragic fate of the late King and Queen. The 

 previous history of Servia is set forth briefly by the author sufficiently, 

 indeed, to render recent events intelligible. The book contains a number 

 of illustrations from photographs, chiefly portraits, and it is to these that 

 it owes much of its interest. People who believe in clairvoyance may be 

 interested in the author's story of a certaki fortune-teller who in 1897 is 

 said to have warned Queen Natalie against ' Madame Draga,' and to 

 have prophesied that the last-named would be Queen one day. It is a 

 wondrous story, though not more extraordinary than the ' clairvoyant 

 vision ' of the assassination which the author sets forth in full with all the 

 ' evidence ' up to date." Westminster Gazette. 



" ' Belgrade, the White City of Death,' is a brief and sketchy account, 

 by Mrs Northesk Wilson, of the Obrenovitch dynasty of Servia, and more 

 particularly the late King and Queen. It is superficial in the extreme, and 

 by no means well put together, but renders fairly clear the main course of 

 Servian affairs since the separation from Turkey. Most of the interest will 

 centre in the illustrations, which are portraits of the chief actors in recent 

 Servian history ; while the superstitious will shake their heads over Mr 

 Stead's medium and her prophecy, and it is certainly curious that the 

 assassination of his great uncle should have been preceded by a somewhat 

 similar event. Mrs Wilson considers that Queen Draga was the author of 

 the ruin that befel the King, nor has she any respect for her either as 

 woman or politician." Western Morning News. 



"This is a picturesque and vigorous record of the rival dynasties of 

 the Karageorges and the Obrenovitch. Without pretending to dwell on 

 the details of each reign, it picks out some of the salient points, and 

 presents them as a series of dramatic incidents leading to an inevitable 

 conclusion." Daily Chronicle. 



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