The correspondent gives a great many other facts to show
how difficult of arrangement is the Albanian problem. We have no doubt it is so in fact, but we venture to say that the essential difficulty is not the question whether this town or that shall be included in the autonomous Albania, but the astonishing failure of the Austrians to realize the truth so well expressed by the American man of business when he explained why he treated a rival with unexpected generosity and friendliness, " I don't want this to be the last transaction between us." One might imagine by the way the Austrians behave that it would be a positive advantage to them to have an angry, sore, and suspicious Servia on their flank—a State filled with the blind vendetta feeling which grows up so easily in the Balkans and takes so long to eradicate.
