Evening star., 1914-11-14

of excited vtcarious naughtiness. And
other things might have been brought
to bear upon her, but among them all,
not once: out in the open. would she
have had been made the heroine of a
modern love story.
BULGARIA AND HER PEOPLE, With
an Account of the Balkan Wars.
Macedonia and the Macedonian Bull
gars. By Will S. Monroe, author of
Turkey and the Turks" etc. Bos-
ton: The Page Company. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
When that long-threatening war
cloud over the Balkans finally broke
into storm of hostilities. it found the
the nations involved. Publishers came
to the rescue with an output Of books
descriptive of the peoples of the
who was in the country at the time OF
the second war. must be awarded the
credit of writing the first work treat
ing of the rejuvenated Bulgarian king
dom" to be printed in the English Ian
guaee. The advantage of environ
ment gives to this general book OF
travel the authority of personal con-
tact. just as the authors previous de-
scriptions of other countries sets the
mint stamp Of literary value on every
old Bulgarian kingdom. under the
Turkish yoke: the making of the new
kingdom. ruled by King Ferdinand. and
the causes and outcomes of the Balkan
wars are described in so many chap
ters, which preface others equally In
terestine. but of more diversified range
Each topic is presented with forcs-
full assurance which, as a whole, gives
the reader a human-nature idea of the
Rulgarians as people and of the
AL lo1 RI
the interest Of the text are many full
page Photographic reproductions. with
frontispiece portrait of Eleanora, Bull
garia's philanthropic queen.
DELIGHTFUL DALMATIA. BY Alice
Lee Moque. Illustrated. New York:
Funk & Wagnalls Company.
OF particularly timely interest is this
attractively illustrated and vividly de-
scrpitive book of travel, telling in a
spirit of keen appreciation Of visit
to the cities of the Dalmatian coast,
from Trieste to Cattaro. While the
great war is centering at present
chiefly in France and eastern Germany.
Dalmatia figures frequently in the
news dispatches. as English and French
warships pound at Austrian shore
strongholds. This is an unbeaten road
of travel, vet by no means difficult of
access. Mrs. Moque. well known in
Washington as a writer. found little
trouble in reaching the places of chief
interest, although doubtless had she
undertaken to pass beyond the coast
line she would have found the going
very hard, especially as she seems from
her own account to have been serious
ly handicapped in undertaking heights.
From Trieste the way led, by steamer.
to Rovigno, to Pola, to Lussin Piccolo,
to Zara. to Sebenico. to Trau, to Spala-
to, to Gravosa, to Ragusa and finally
to Cattaro. Everywhere was something
interesting, some token of present-day
Dalmatian life or ancient dominion and
influence from over seas. For once upon
a time Dalmatia was the prey of vari-
Gus powers. and their marks are now
visible in ruined palaces and strong
holds, places of worship and mauso-
leums. 1t is a land rich in tradition.
with many visible, tangible tokens of
the long-abiding faith of the people in
the verify of their beloved beliefs.
The tale of this journey is told in
an intimate vein. with many refer
ences to the individual attributes of
both the writer and the accompanying
husband. Just whether the personal ex-
periences are wholly authentic or are