eedom with greater difficulty; and surely they need have no more
uneasiness than have the Scots that their name and nationality will be
swamped, for what the Magyars were unable to do, that the Serbs do not
wish to do. There are among the Serbs a few extremists, such as a
pernicious editor or two, but their anti-Croat tirades find extremely
little favour anywhere. Last autumn when the Prince-Regent (now King
Alexander) visited the Croat capital his reception was most
enthusiastic. "Let us keep him here!" cried the people, "and let King
Peter stay in Belgrade!" The Prince by his tact brought the Croat out of
his tent; he must not be allowed to go back again--let the Southern
Slavs observe what each of their provinces can bring towards the common
good. The Croats acknowledge that the military system of Serbia is more
endurable--only one son is taken out of each family--and that whereas in
Slovenia a lawsuit can be settled in fourteen days it has been wont in
Croatia to take as many years. Unfortunately human nature, in Serbia,
Croatia and everywhere else, finds that the bad points of other people
are more worthy of comment than the good. When two brothers have been
brought up in very different circumstances there will be so many points
on which they differ; and when a Serb taking part in a technical
discussion of scientists wishes to say that he differs from the previous
speaker he will commonly observe that that person has made a fool of
himself. When an editor alludes to a political opponent he may call him
an assassin and be much astonished if this is resented. "Je suis un
ours," said a Serbian savant of European repute; occasionally he behaves
like one and is rather proud of it. The Serbs of Croatia have been
imitating, nay exaggerating, the emphatic manners of their countrymen in
the old kingdom. And Pribi[vc]evi['c], as Minister of Education, has not
attempted to give the Croats a tactful course in courage, patriotism and
morality, where they have much to learn from the less civilized Serbs,
but scowling at them he has made up his mind that, in and out of school,
they must straightway be the closest of companions.

However, the Serbs and Croats have a man whose counsel is more worthy of
attention. Dr. Trumbi['c], formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs, had
been elected at the head of four different lists in his native Dalmatia
but had entered the Constituent Assembly without giving his allegiance
to any party. And