• I have stressed the seriousness of this work since
it is by it seriousness that it will finally be judged. It is 'a study in rad vigour, and as such is stimulating for us in these ineffective days Yet another reason why I beg my readers to share the pleas which I have had from this book is that it will assuredly rev' in them the zest of travel, the interest in new things, the pleas of comparing our own values with those of other races. b agreeable to share with so talkative a woman the slow coming spring among the mountains of Macedonia or beside the swe of the Albanian lakes. "I value delight:' says Miss West, her pages sparkle with high spirits. Not for a nrioment, I glad to say, does, she stick to the point. Off she goes, like spaniel in the bracken, chasing pacifism, mithraism, Manicheans, Napoleon, the dog at Perasto, Kara Mustapn2` encampment, Tolstoy, or the thick-thumbed wife of Cons.zanr of Shabatz. And as one basks in the dappled sunshine of II lovely book, one is aware of the dark shadow creeping like dut at Lovcen over Yugoslavia. The vultures today have seiz upon the Kingdom of the Serbs, the Croats and the Slt sen pashalik of Belgrade. Yet Draza Mihailovic still remains U partitioned .1 Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania have country, until little more is left to the Serbs beyond the :-,ncle conquered .in his mountains, and personifies for all the Yui.-usla the ardour of their race. The Bulgars, rule at Skoplye and quisling Pavelic asserts his uncertain authority at Zagreb confident in the day of victory the Yugoslays remain, as USTI violent and serene.
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