The people of Montenegro are evidently in the way of
losing their special characteristics. The desire for " comfort," "intercourse," and trade has entered their minds, and they are trying to make themselves rich. They have renewed the old commerce with Servia which had been suspended for some years by troubles with Albania, and since the marriage of their Princess with the King of Italy have acquired profitable trade privileges with the peninsula. They are anxious to facilitate the visits of wealthy tourists, and are talking of building some cheap railways. Prince Nicholas favours all these developments, and thinks they will increase the power of his "nation of soldiers," but he will soon find that his mountaineers, once well off, will become impatient of the strong discipline which has made of his little State a bar of steeL Montenegro cannot have the advantages' of high civilisation and of wildness too, and will soon cease to be the
one spot in Europe where theft is unknown. Tourist,. i corrupt Paradise.
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