The sun., 1900-12-02

yo,ingsf brother tonuuitSa or knlnvnn Good
john, who-r natural abilities and nNc"rtinn-
ally favornl,'o oproriurlt.cs enabled him - rut
the rIgarinn StDto on irwrr footing w"
Nns shteVd enough ~ d"fIv" 'uu-idefahF
ady1r'aGr 'tom tho Ireo'h between iH-t"tn
md Western Chfis' lnI'v which WIS r'Iidh
Widening. and be- ontrlnd on 4 curious cor
rrspopdonco with ropr In0occu' III, witch
ended ~ the despatch ~ rlpal lsr1to 20
Iirnova, who crowned kalo'nu ~ i"wi0w
, Br6orUn ~ iui1rrori,r, AZ soon NJ he heai !
| of tho capture Of Constartinoplr U20N kalovnn
| offered bls arms and assistance to the Latin
7 Empire. His over'Ires were met With rude
and un wise rebuff and he was even told TO Civ"
~ O. the Lntlns the territory which he had
| taken from the Crock Etnrlrc rhcrenpon
| he made an alliance with the Greeks and de
! fcated the Tatins NJ Adrlnor" The latin
| Emperor Baldwin himself was taken prisoner
ard p"rlshed myst'rouslv In captivity Nh"n
| he had avenged tha insults of the Iatns. Kal-
| Cyan turned against tho Greeks At the head
OF his barharouS Humans he rnass,cred tho
Greek inhabitants OF Thracc and Macedonia
and finally besieaed Salonica Here his event
fu career came to an end He died In bis camp
assassinated nv nembor of his family. In
! i2D7, and his domlnlons lapsad temporarily
| into chaos Bulgaria seemed about TO disap-
] poar from the map whom kalovans son. Asen.
| who had ned 70 the North, returned with n band
| OF Russians and seized tho throne
| The reign OF Asen II. G2is-i240) was the most
/ prosperous period o' the second Bulgarian
Empire. and. perhaps. of all Bulgarian his
tory. The weakness OF both the Latin and
| Greek empires rendered him the strongest
| potentate In Eastern Europe Like his father.
| he wished TO be on good terms with the Latin
Empire. and was a candidate for the post Of
| . nall ALL, I
He was not elected and angry at what he con-
sidered a slight. he formed an alliance with
the Greeks. His Empire comnrtsed the modern
Bulgaria and Serva dncluding Belgrade).
| Macedonia and Albania, and according to his
| own boast. he left the Latins nothing but Con-
stantinople and the cities around II. II We
| keep In view how troubled were the times.
and how blood-stnined the annals OF his pred
ecessors. his reign will seem TO have been
| marked by extraordinary peace and material
| prosperity. lie was an ardent patron Of archi-
lecture and the Church. He filed his capital.
| Tirnovo with magnificent buildings which
| made II second only TO Constantnope In beauty
| and splendor. and he llso built and endowed
large number of uonasteres In different
| parts OF his domlnlons. His Empire. how
| ever, was not moro stable than that which
| had preceded it and broke up Immediately
/
| improbable to follow in detail the comp-
| Gated intrigues and Instructions which com
posed the remainder OF the medlRval his
| tory OF Bulgaria. Rent by internal dissen-
| siors. the unhappy country was attacked by
/ Tartars from the north. and overshadowed
| BY the growing power OF Servia TO the west.
| The two Slavonic States came into collision
at the battle Of velbuzhd. The Bulgarnns
were utterly defeated. and thonceforth may
! be for some time considered as the vassals Of
Servia until the decline Of the latter State rees
tablished equality II Ia an ingloriois feature OF
| this period that the Bulganans were allies OF
| the tn ks and assisted them against the
! Greek Empire. Corps were formed called volnik
! composed OF Christians. who. In consIdera-
ton ~ their taxes being remtted. served under
! the Ottoman standard against their core
| ligionsts. The last Bulgarian Gar became
the yassal Of Sultan Murad and gave him his
daughter IN marriage. In spite Of such con-
/ cessions Bulgaria WAS doomed. Tho power
Of the Southern Slavs was annihilated In 1889
AZ the battle Of Kossovu. and four years later
| the Ot,0mqns burned Tirnovo and DESTROYED
! the last vestlge of Bulgarian Independence
ILL.,
1t has seemed to us that the authors outline
OF Bnlyar'aS mod'B'ai history deserves par
Vicui" a''"h'i"n p'Cduoo " ~ re'a'''ey uh-
familiar to American and English readers. The
annals OF S"rvta are comparatively well known.
We pass 20 the chapters In which the earlier
records OF the Turks are summal zed. We
should frat call to mind that at the present day
large parts of Asia north OF the Hoans-ho,
Of Tibet aud of the Hndu-kush. that IL to say
the regions vaguely described as Mongolia.
Turkestan and siberia are inhabited by people
who may he conveniently treated as forming
linguistic unit. Their languages may be
, divided into four families, the ManChu, the
: Mongo the Turkish and fourthy. more
miscellaneous group comprising Finnish, Mag
var and number Of les known tongues.
The resemhlanccs between hcse four families
lie in the structure rather than in the vocah-
uary; but oil the languages are sharply dis
tineui,hed from those of the Chinese or Ar
! yaus by whom the speakers are surrounded.
II seems clear that at the present day there IS
no racial unity CORE spending to this linguistic
| unit. and 1t is not clear that there ever was.
Many Fiuns are physically undistinguishable
! from Swedes. tn" original Huns are always
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