MONTENEGRO.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I 'scarcely know whether it is worth while answering Mrs. Mackellar, who makes a very vehement and childish attack upon me in your columns. She refuses to deal with any of my statements which were intended to show that the present Yugo-Slav administration of Montenegro is in accord- ance with the wishes of the vast majority of Montenegrins. For many years the sacred ideal of national union on the part of Serbia and Montenegro and the other Yugo-Slav provinces has been a constant theme of the verses of the ex-King of Montenegro. Now it has come to pass, but because the poet, on account of his amply proved treacheries, has been set aside, he is dead against it. Nevertheless, the union of the Southern Slays, after all these centuries, is not going to be impeded, and the long list of raving adjectives which Mrs. Mackellar flings at the Serbs will not be of much assistance to the ex- King and his tiny, discredited faction. "It is," says Mrs. Mackellar, "by the desire of all classes [of Montenegrins] that I give support to the cause of their country." I have made inquiries in Montenegrin circles in London, and find that this
is extremely untrue. It would indeed be strange if the Montenegrins had to avail themselves of the services of one whose qualifications to speak on the subject of their country are so pitifully small. Nikita, of course, is in such a plight that he would probably be glad of the help even of Mrs.
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