C.E. MAURICE. _The Revolutionary Movement of_ 1848-49. 1887. 16s. The best epitome in English.
COUNT FRANCIS LUTZOW. _Bohemia_. 1896. (Everyman Library.) 1s.
EMILY G. BALCH. _Our Slavic Fellow Citizens_. New York. 1910. The best book on emigration. 10s. 6d. net.
W. MILLER. _The Balkans_. 1896. (Story of the Nations.) The best general text-book. 5s.
W. MILLER. _The Ottoman Empire, 1801-1913_. 1913. (Cambridge Historical Series.) An excellent book, with a misleading title; it is really a history of the Balkan Christians, with special reference to the Greeks. Turkish history is only introduced incidentally. 7s. 6d. net.
EMILE DE LAVELEYE. _The Balkan Peninsula_. 1887. (Out of print,) By a distinguished Belgian professor, who was in his day recognised as an authority on Balkan questions.
LEOPOLD VON RANKE. _History of Servia_. 3s. 6d. (Bohn's Library.) This brilliant and sympathetic study by the greatest of German historians is of permanent value.
SIR ARTHUR J. EVANS. _Through Bosnia on Foot_. 1877. (Out of print.) The distinguished archaeologist took part, as a young man, in the Bosnian rising against the Turks.
R.W. SETON-WATSON. _The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy._ 1911. 12s. 0d. net. (Greatly modified and extended in a German edition published in 1913.)
R.W. SETON-WATSON. _Absolutism in Croatia_. 1912. 2s. net.
CEDO MIJATOVIC. _Servia of the Servians_. 1911. 16s. net.
ELODIE MIJATOVIC. _Serbian Folklore._. 1874.
(C) THREE OTHER BOOKS DEALING WITH THE BALKANS ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
SIR CHARLES ELIOT (ODYSSEUS). _Turkey in Europe_. 2nd ed. 7s. 6d. net.
H.N. BRAILSFORD. _Macedonia_. 1906. 12s. 6d. net.
LUIGI VILLARI AND OTHERS. _The Balkan Question_. 1905. 10s. 6d. net.
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