Thick fell the snow upon St. George's day; The little birds all left their cloudy bed; The maiden wander'd bare-foot on her way; Her brother bore her sandals, and he said: "O sister mine! cold, cold thy feet must be." "No! not my feet, sweet brother! not my feet-- But my poor heart is cold with misery. There's nought to chill me in the snowy sleet: My mother--'tis my mother who hath chill'd me, Bound me to one who with disgust hath fill'd me." LIBERTY. Nightingale sings sweetly In the verdant forest: In the verdant forest, On the slender branches. Thither came three sportsmen, Nightingale to shoot at. She implored the sportsmen, "Shoot me not, ye sportsmen! "Shoot me not, ye sportsmen! I will give you music, In the verdant garden, On the crimson rose-tree." But the sportsmen seize her; They deceive the songster, In a cage confine her, Give her to their loved one. Nightingale will sing not-- Hangs its head in silence: Then the sportsmen bear her To the verdant forests. Soon her song is waken'd; Woe! woe! woe betide us, Friend from friend divided, Bird from forest banish'd! BROTHERLESS SISTERS. Two solitary sisters, who A brother's fondness never knew, Agreed, poor girls, with one another, That they would make themselves a brother: They cut them silk, as snow-drops white; And silk, as richest rubies bright; They carved his body from a bough Of box-tree from the mountain's brow; Two jewels dark for eyes they gave; For eyebrows, from the ocean's wave They took two leeches; and for teeth Fix'd pearls above, and pearls beneath; For food they gave him honey sweet, And said, "Now live, and speak, and eat." PRINTED BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN. PHOTOS [Illustration: KING PETER.] [Illustration: CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER] [Illustration: PREMIER N.???] [Illustration: KING The fourteenth century] [Illustration] [Illustration: DURING TURKISH RULE IN SERBIA. Serbs?? away?? the????] [Illustration: ???] [Illustration: THE SECOND SERBIAN REVOLUTION OF 1815.] [Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF KALENIC. Built by Stephen the Tall.] [Illustration: SERBIAN SOLDIERS WITH AN ENGLISH NURSE.] [Illustration: SERBIAN OFFICERS UNDER ADRIANOPLE IN 1912.] [Illustration: THE CATTLE MARKET.] [Illustration:] [Illustration: A TYPICAL MONTENEGRIN LADY: H.M. QUEEN MILENA.] [Illustration: PEASANT TYPES.] [Illustration: THE SUPERIOR OF A MONASTERY.] [Illustration: KING PETER: "How did it happen, General, that you Turks lost the battle on Kumanovo?" THE TURKISH GENERAL: "Kismet!"] [Illustration: _Photo-Underwood and Underwood_ WOMEN DOING THE WORK OF MEN.] [Illustration: SERBIAN WOMEN CARRYING WOUNDED. _From photograph by kind permission of Mr. Crawford Price._]