The Liberation of Bulgaria. By Wentworth Huysshe. (Bliss, Sands, and
Foster.)—It is certainly late for notes of a campaign fought eighteen years ago to appear, but it is not too late. Mr. Huysshe, who was war correspondent of the New York Herald, has something to say about the war for the liberation of Bulgaria, which has not been said so clearly, possibly not said at all, before. And it so happens that this something is, in part at least, peculiarly appropriate to the occasion. The civilised world is waiting to hear the truth about the conduct of the Turks in Armenia. It is not irrelevant to hear what they did in Bulgaria. The " atrocities " proper, for which Canon MacColl and others are witnesses, Mr. Huysshe does not expressly treat of. But he tells us things which make us more inclined than ever to believe them. Whatever the Turk may be in peace, in war he is an un- mitigated savage. Not a single wounded Russian was brought into the Turkish hospitals during the war in all Mr. Huysshe's experience. It was an extraordinary event when three unwounded prisoners appeared. And these had a very narrow escape of being massacred in cold blood. The obstinate scepticism which certain people oppose to the evidence about Turkish misdoings is nothing less than a crime, for it encourages the criminals. The account of the military operations of the campaign is a very striking and effec- tive narrative, and we are glad that Mr. Huysshe has at last thought fit to publish it.
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