After going through many phases and fluctuations, this question appears to be at least appreciably nearer to a solution. The margin of difference between the two sides has now been reduced to a few points. If Italy gives way altogether on Dalmatia, it would seem only fair that the Yugo-Slavs should make some concessions as to Fiume, providing their economic interests can be reasonably insured. And it cannot be too strongly desired that if a compromise can be effected, the Yugo-Slavs recognizing their great debt to Italy, and the Italians recognizing the right to unity and independence of Yugo-Slavia, the two nations should go back to that attitude of mutual respect, coöperation, and fraternity which was the ideal of the noblest and most far-sighted Italian statesman of the nineteenth century, the great Mazzini. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Probably the best history of Hungary available in any Western language is that by E. Sayous: _Histoire générale des Hongrois_, Budapest, 1900. Conditions in Hungary before the War are described from the Magyar point of view in: Percy Alden (ed.), _Hungary of Today. By members of the Hungarian Government_. (Apponyi, Kossuth, Wekerle, etc.) London, 1909. C. M. Knatchbull-Hugessen, _The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation_. 2 vols. London, 1908. The author who has done more than any other one man, perhaps, to expose the tyranny of the old Magyar regime to the Western public, is R. W. Seton-Watson, who at first wrote under the pseudonym of ‘Scotus Viator.’ His chief books on this subject are: _Racial Problems in Hungary_, London, 1908; _Corruption and Reform in Hungary: a study of electoral practice_, _ibid._, 1911; _The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy_, _ibid._, 1911. The Roumanian problem in Hungary naturally forms a chief topic in another recent work by Mr. Seton-Watson: _Roumania and the Great War_, London, 1915. Other noteworthy expositions of Roumania’s claims to what was eastern Hungary are to be found in: M. R. Sirianu, _La Question de Transylvanie et l’unité politique roumaine_. Paris, 1916. D. Draghicesco, _Les problèmes nationaux de l’Autriche-Hongrie. Les Roumains_. Paris, 1918. N. P. Comnène, _Roumania through the Ages. An historical, political, and ethnographical atlas_. Paris, 1919. A rather copious literature has grown up lately around the Yugo-Slav movement. Among the most useful works on that subject are: A. H. E. Taylor, _The Future of the Southern Slavs_. New York, 1917. V. R. Savić, _South-Eastern Europe_. New York, 1918. E. Denis, _La grande Serbie_. Paris, 1915. R. J. Kerner, _The Jugo-Slav Movement_. Cambridge, Mass., 1918. * * * * *