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two last Obrfiiovitchs gave him every prospect that 

 the people would demand the return of that dynast) 

 of which he was the representative. He, however, 

 refrained from involving himself in any of the 

 numerous conspiracies, real or fictitious, against the 

 Obrenovitchs, and was content to await the time 

 when the people of Servia should imperatively feel 

 the need of him at their head. He was not to 

 blame that the call came after a tragedy horrible 

 in its bloody details, which was presented to the 

 world bv those interested in Servian unrest without 

 the circumstances which made it intelligible. 



A great admirer of Great Britain, it was a very 

 real sorrow to King Peter that the first vears of his 

 reign should be shadowed by the refusal of the 

 British Government to send a Minister to Belgrade, 

 while declining to give any idea of the steps con- 

 sidered necessary for the renewal of diplomatic rela- 

 tions. At last, thanks to the decision of King Peter 

 and his Prime Minister, Monsieur Pachitch, relations 



have been reopened, and there is every hoi)e that 

 the two countries will remain friends, more and 

 more clo.sely bound in the future. Servia is a small 

 State, but the Servian nation is large and a very 

 considerable factor in the future of the Austrian 

 Empire and the Balkan peninsula, while there seems 

 no adequate reason why we should abandon the rich 

 resources of the countrv to more enterprising Ger- 

 mans, whose ideas are not without taint of political 

 aspiration. Under King Peter, a real constitutional 

 monarch, of high moral principles and honest pur- 

 pose. Great Britain mav be sure that Servia will 

 pursue a straight and progressive course, making 

 her more and more worthv to be considered a 

 modern European State on an equality with any in 

 the west of the Continent. King Peter s mission is 

 well begun ; it behoves those who hold to the prin- 

 ciples of constitutional liberty and progress to see 

 that he does not lack for moral and practical sup- 

 port against the enormous difficulties which confront 

 him. 



II.— IN MEMORIAM : PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGfE. 



By Desmond Mountjoy Raleigh. 



When Death steps fresh from the Darkness, and 

 taking one of our friends by the hand leads them 

 out into the great silence, w-e one and all hasten to 

 make a trivial tribute of sweet flowers or perhaps of 

 words, to the memory of our friend. 



I am not sure that we are not to some extent 

 impelled to do this by the unacknowledged feeling 

 which sadly reminds us that while that friend was 

 still with us, and fighting the daily fight, we often 

 failed to cheer and help them by a word or a smile. 



Pearl Craigie never wanted for friends, or the 

 sweet offices of friendship during her life. Emer- 

 son says, " the way to have friends is to he one,' 

 and as she was one of the be-st friends that a man 

 or woman could possibly have, she had her exceed- 

 ing great reward. Her days of darkness and her 

 nights of sorrow were .softened by the ineffable 

 odour of friendship, and her happy moments were 

 made happier by the light reflected from the eyes 

 of those w hose greatest joy w-as to witness hers. 



OUR FIRST KEETINCt. 



Six or seven \ears ago, viewing the mysterious 

 world of Literature and Art from atop of the magic 

 hills of inexperienced youth, I saw in Pearl Mary 

 Teresa Craigie a bright particular star, to whom I 

 freely accorded all my homage and adoration. 



When I found myself in London for the first time, 

 I speedily made my way into her presence, and ne\er 

 shall I forget ni> feeling of exaltation and gratitude 

 when I discovered that she was all and more than 

 the ideal my fancy had pictured. 



I suppose we are all more or less dual-natured. 



but to me Mrs. Craigie always seemed three dis- 

 tinct people, and it was the gracious admixture of 

 these three that was known to the world. But to 

 manv to whom the personalitv, as a whole, was fairly 

 familiar its triune aspects were pu2zling and mys- 

 terious. 



Born of the best blood and tradition of the New 

 World, she was in early life steeped in the poetry, 

 passion and glorious traditions of the Old, and the 

 result was her almost unique modernity and keen- 

 ness, which, worn as a graceful outer garment, 

 covered the soul of a poet and a saint. 



THREE IN OXE. 



She w as " John Oliver Hobbes," the somewhat 

 puritan, who with unfailing finger pointed out the 

 evils and sores of modern life, and who had much 

 of the stern puritan hoped-for-make-believe and 

 sham. 



Then she was Pearl Craigie, the darling of her 

 friends, the intimate of the great social, artiiftic, and 

 literary world, the equ;d of Queens, a woman who 

 faithfully served her contemporaries to her utmost 

 abilit\'. 



Last, and most alluring picture of all, she was 

 ■ Mary Teresa," and she was not unworthy of the 

 great woman whose namesake she was, and in whose 

 steps she humbly sought to follow. 



The world may not have known it, but it was the 

 •■ Mary Teresa " in her that gave grace, sweetness 

 and strength to her character, and added an unde- 

 finable something which all felt thuugh few could 



