Photo by .V. W. Cutler 



picTURi;souE; type seen taking a rest against one oe the great bridge 



BUTTRESSES DOWN ON THE EMBANKMENT : BUDAPEST 



He is a Servian. The pack on his back is tied on with the rope of a dressing-gown, 

 evidently donated by some kind friend. The clothes are made of a very coarse homespun 

 linen. 



government are Europeanized, but they 

 together do not represent .0005 of the 

 nation, and the difference between a 

 simple peasant and his rulers is the dif- 

 ference of old between a gondolier and 

 one of the Council of Ten. 



But this is the era of transition, and 

 people even here are not always content 

 to see the Ark of the Covenant guarded 



by extraneous forces calling themselves 

 the executive, deriving from nowhere 

 but possessing inherent powers. There 

 are sporadic signs of discontent which 

 the executive classes under the generic 

 term Socialism. These ebullitions usu- 

 ally end in the confiscation of seditious 

 journals (seditious journals are those not 

 subsidized by the government). 



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