no others
of the supreme writers--were as serious and responsible in
their public actions as in the pursuit of their art.]

[Footnote 62: Whatever be the limitations of the _Dom_ as a
newspaper--it is almost exclusively occupied with the person
and programme of Mr. Radi['c]--yet that brings with it the
virtue, most exceptional in Yugoslavia, of refusing to engage
in polemics. This would otherwise take up a good deal of its
space, as Radi['c] has become such a bogey-man that nothing is
too ridiculous for his opponents to believe. A Czech newspaper
not long ago informed the world that this monstrous personage
had told an interviewer that not only had Serbian soldiers in
Macedonia been murdering 200 children but that they had roasted
and consumed them. Furthermore Radi['c] had said that the
British Minister to Yugoslavia had called upon him and had
asked his advice with some persistence, not even wishing to
leave Radi['c] time to reflect, as to whether the Prince-Regent
should rule in Russia, while an English Prince should be
invited to occupy the Yugoslav throne. The first of these
remarks proved conclusively, said a number of Belgrade papers,
that Radi['c] was a knave and by the second he had demonstrated
that he was an imbecile. And my friend Mr. Leiper of the
_Morning Post_ speculated as to whether he was more likely to
end his days in a lunatic asylum or a prison. But Radi['c] was
caring about none of these things; his birthday happened at
about this time and some 30,000 of his adherents came to do him
honour at his birthplace, over 500 of them on decorated horses
having met him at Sisak station the previous evening. When I
asked him what he had to say about the two afore-mentioned
remarks he gave me an amusing account of how the interviewer
had appreciated the various samples of wine which he (Radi['c])
had just brought down from his vineyard. The conversation
lasted for about four hours, and in the course of it Radi['c]
mentioned that a certain Moslem deputy from Novi Bazar,
irritated by the fact that Mr. Dra[vs]kovi['c], Minister of the
Interior, found no pleasure in his continued presence on a
commission of inquiry in the region of Kossovo, had been
throwing out very dark hints about a child which he accused the
Serbs of killing in the stormy days of 1878, and th