Bulgaria and Turkey are all between 6 and
6.5 per cent. France has a percentage of 8.5, Russia has 9,
Germany 9.3 and Austria 11. Above them all comes Serbia with
the appalling percentage of 23.]

[Footnote 106: November 24, 1921.]

[Footnote 107: Cf. "Geographie Humaine de la France" in the
_Histoire de la Nation Francaise_. Paris, 1920.]

[Footnote 108: Cf. _L'histoire illustree de la guerre de
1914_.]

[Footnote 109: _L'Albanie en 1921._ Paris, 1922.]

[Footnote 110: _Under the Acroceraunian Mountains._]

[Footnote 111: M. Gabriel Louis Jaray. Cf. his _Les Albanais_
(Paris, 1920) and his other writings on the Albanians.]

[Footnote 112: Cf. _A History of the Peace Conference of
Paris_. Edited by H. W. V. Temperley, vols. iv. and v. London,
1921.]

[Footnote 113: Elias Regnault, _Histoire politique et sociale
des Principautes Danubiennes_. Paris, 1885.]

[Footnote 114: The more advanced Roumanians of the plain also
apply this term to their countrymen who live among the
Roumanian mountains or, in Serbia, amid the heights of
Po[vz]arevac and Kraina. It signifies a stupid fellow, one from
the wilderness.]

[Footnote 115: February 13, 1919.]

IX

CONCLUSION: A FEW NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

THE SLOVENES AND THE SERBS--THE MONTENEGRINS AND THE SERBS--THE CROATS
AND THE SERBS--SERB AND BULGAR.

THE SLOVENES AND THE SERBS

Those who, for some reason or other, do not love the Yugoslavs will have
said to themselves, before taking up this book, that they would
certainly supply that searching criticism of this people which the
author would omit. They knew it was unlikely that a man would write at
such excessive length about the Southern Slavs if he had not a weakness
for them, and if he predicted for their State the virtue of cohesion or
more than very moderate tranquillity, his prejudice would have to be
discounted. "The Yugoslavs," said an Italian lady to me in London, and
her beautiful lips looked as if they could scarcely bring themselves to
pronounce the name, "the Yugoslavs," she said, "are very wild and
black." If I have given the impression in this book that they are white,
my fault will be much greater than the lady's, since I am not quite a
stranger to them. Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and Bulgars--they have good
and evil qualities so different that one must take them separately, and
perhaps it will be m