"Samo sloga Srbina spasava" ("Only in the union of
Serbs is salvation"), which are placed round the cross in
Serbia's coat of arms.]
[Footnote 38: Cf. _La Dalmatie de 1797-1815_, by the Abbe
Paul Pisani. Paris, 1893.]
[Footnote 39: His fame as a teacher was such that several
towns entreated him to settle in their midst. In 1845 the
inhabitants of Stara Zagora sent him this curious letter:
"When Philip, King of Macedonia, invited Aristotle to be the
tutor of his son, he wrote to him: 'I am happy, in the first
place, because God has given me a son, and, secondly, because
this son was born in your time....' And we also, we thank
God, firstly, because it has been granted to us to found a
school, and, secondly, because we know that under your
direction it will be a real school. That is why we supplicate
and pray that you will come to us and be our teacher."]
[Footnote 40: Smail Aga, Vice-Governor of Herzegovina, had
earned for himself the greatest detestation of the
Montenegrins, whom he harried, and of his own unhappy
subjects. In August 1840 he was attacked by a small band of
heroes, men of Montenegro and of Herzegovina. He and a large
number of his men were killed. A translation of this
celebrated poem was made by Mr. J. W. Wiles at Salonika, and
printed there, under difficult circumstances, entirely by
Serbian refugees.]
[Footnote 41: Cf. _Fiume Italiana_. Rome, 1919.]
[Footnote 42: According to the census of 1857 the figures
were: Serbs, 452,500; Roumanians, 414,900; Germans, 394,100;
Magyars, 256,100; Jews, 12,500; Gipsies, 600.]
[Footnote 43: Their German origin had become so completely
obliterated that they no longer spoke anything but Croat. It
is curious in this connection to note that Kossuth, the
champion of Magyarism, was of Slav blood; that Rieger, the
Czech leader, was of German blood; and that Conscience, chief
of the Flemish movement, had a French father.]
[Footnote 44: Cf. Seton-Watson's _The Southern Slav
Question_. London, 1911.]
[Footnote 45: Cf. _Letters of Count Cavour_, edited by Gl.
Chiala, vol. iv. pp. 139-140.]
[Footnote 46: This lady, the Princess Julia, subsequently
married the Duke of Aremberg. She died in February 1919 in
Vienna at the age of eighty-eight. In the early sixties she
came on a mission to Engla
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