e among their mountains on milk and its products, are
very prolific, having families of eight or ten children. They are a very
healthy, moral race.

Another pro-Nikita, anti-Serbian writer, excusable only on account of
his insignificance, is Mr. Devine, who teaches, I am told, at a school
near Winchester and seems very unwilling to be taught. If he wishes, by
producing a book on the subject, to show other people that he knows
painfully little about Montenegro, that is his own affair. But he is
just as ignorant with regard to his hero. He says that he "is in a
position to state that there is not one single word of truth in the
insinuations and charges impugning the absolute integrity and loyalty of
King Nicholas towards his Allies." The King was, according to Mr.
Devine, a defenceless old man whom it was very bad form to attack. But
the King had been defending himself at considerable length not only in a
harangue to his adherents in a Paris suburb, but also on various
occasions in a newspaper, the _Journal Officiel_--and both the speech
and long extracts from the newspaper are quoted, with approval, in Mr.
Devine's book. This quaint person is so frantically keen to pour
whitewash over Nikita that he has no time to listen to the main
treacheries of Nikita's career. "Malicious falsehoods!" he
splutters--and they can be traced to horrible pan-Serbians. He has
reason to believe that they wish to make Serbia the Prussia of the new
Federation; well, the Croats and the Slovenes and the Bosniaks and all
the others cannot say that Mr. Devine has not warned them. My
Montenegrin friend Mr. Buri['c] stated in the columns of the _Saturday
Review_ that this odd gentleman had nourished the ambition of becoming
Montenegrin Minister to the Court of St. James, but that the plan did
not succeed. I never saw Mr. Devine's denial--perhaps it fell into the
clutches of a ruthless pan-Serbian printer. Naturally, Mr. Devine would
not care to be the diplomatic representative of a villain; therefore,
when he is brought face to face with certain definite charges he
persists in replying "not in detail, but from the broad point of view."
He is so exceedingly broad that when an accusation is levelled against
the King he sees in this an accusation against the entire country--a
country which unfortunately, as he says, "alone of all the Allies has no
diplomatic representative in this country." Mr. Devine continues
unabashed to repeat and repeat his pro-Ni