28 JULY 1917, Page 22

The Afemairs of a Balkan Diplomatist. By Count Chedomille Mijatovich.

(Cassell and Co. 16s. net.)—Count Mijatovich, who has held various Ministerial offices, and also represented Serbia in London and other -capitals, has written a frank and entertaining, though somewhat disconnected, autobiography, in which those who care for " revelations " may find what they seek. Ho attri- butes the Beebe-Bulgarian War of 1885 to a desire on the part of King Milan to provoke -war between Russia sad Austria, possibly at the instance of the war party at -Vienna, though not, he thinks, in accordance with the wishes of the Emperor and his Government.