ve, and to many others who are not named, I am
deeply grateful.

E. Alexander Powell.

Yokohama, Japan,
February, 1920.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT vii

I ACROSS THE REDEEMED LANDS 1

II THE BORDERLAND OF SLAV AND LATIN 56

III THE CEMETERY OF FOUR EMPIRES 110

IV UNDER THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT 155

V WILL THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE RECOVER? 176

VI WHAT THE PEACE-MAKERS HAVE DONE ON THE DANUBE 206

VII MAKING A NATION TO ORDER 243

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Queen of Rumania tells Major Powell that she
enjoys being a Queen _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

His first sight of the Terra Irridenta 12

The end of the day 20

A little mother of the Tyrol 20

Italy's new frontier 28

This is not Venice, as you might suppose, but Trieste 46

At the gates of Fiume 60

The inhabitants of Fiume cheering d'Annunzio and his raiders 78

His Majesty Nicholas I, King of Montenegro 124

Two conspirators of Antivari 130

The head men of Ljaskoviki, Albania, waiting to bid Major and
Mrs. Powell farewell 142

The ancient walls of Salonika 158

Yildiz Kiosk, the favorite palace of Abdul-Hamid and his
successors on the throne of Osman 194

The Red Badge of Mercy in the Balkans 208

The gypsy who demanded five lei for the privilege of taking
her picture 234

A peasant of Old Serbia 234

King Ferdinand tells Mrs. Powell his opinion of the fashion in
which the Peace Conference treated Rumania 240

The wine-shop which is pointed out to visitors as "the Cradle
o