Produced by Al Haines EUROPE--WHITHER BOUND? (Quo Vadis Europa?) Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 BY STEPHEN GRAHAM THE RYERSON PRESS TORONTO 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PREFATORY NOTE The Author's gratitude is due to many people in connexion with this book--to Bishop Nicholas of Zicca and the Rev. Hugh Chapman, of the Savoy, and Col. Treloar and Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, and the Editor of the "Narodny Listi," at Prague, and Mr. Hyka,--to these and many others who helped a traveller on his way. The letters from each capital were published in "Country Life" under the general title of _Quo Vadis Europa?_ A few after-thoughts have now been written on "Extra Leaves," and sewn in between these letters. No effort at an exhaustive study of any country is made here. The object of the author was to make a rapid tour from capital to capital, "keeping the taxi waiting," so to say, and thus obtain an idea of Europe as a whole. It is perhaps one of the first books of travel written from the point of view of Europe as a unity, and it is hoped it will help to make us all good Europeans. CONTENTS LETTERS OF TRAVEL I. FROM ATHENS EXTRA LEAVES (i) _On Passports and "Circulation"_ II. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE (I) III. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE (II) EXTRA LEAVES (ii) _On "Charity" and the Stagnation of Peoples_ IV. FROM SOFIA V. FROM BELGRADE (I) VI. FROM BELGRADE (II) VII. FROM BUDAPEST VIII. FROM VIENNA EXTRA LEAVES (iii) _On Money and League of Nations Currency_ IX. FROM PRAGUE X. FROM WARSAW EXTRA LEAVES (iv) _On Nationality and an Armistice Baby_ XI. FROM MUNICH XII. FROM BERLIN (I) XIII. FROM BERLIN (II) EXTRA LEAVES (v) _On "Clay Sparrows" and the Failure of Freedom_ XIV. FROM ROME XV. FROM MONTE CARLO XVI. FROM LONDON XVII. FROM PARIS EUROPE--WHITHER BOUND? LETTERS OF TRAVEL I. FROM ATHENS Europe, whither goest thou?--the poignant question of to-day. The pride of Christian culture, the greatest human achievement in history, with, as we thought before 1914, the seal of immortality set upon her, is now perhaps moving towards dissolution and death. Europe has begun a rapid decline, though no one dares to think that she will continue in it downward until she reaches the chaos and misery and barbarity from which she sprang. Affairs will presently take a turn for the better, Europe will recover her balance and resume the road of progress which she left seven years ago--prompts Hope. "Europe must die in order to be re-born as something better"; "all must be destroyed," say the theorists of revolution. "She staggers and falls and falls and plunges," seem to say the facts with the inexorableness of Fate.