No, there is not a personality in the Balkans to-day at once forceful enough, honest enough, and skilful enough to give the Peninsula a union which would enable it by means of a bold decision now to ensure internal peace and freedom from outside interference. A great man could build up a greater Switzerland, perhaps, of the Slavs, the Greeks, and the Roumanians in the Balkan Peninsula with Great Britain, Russia, and France as joint sponsors for the freedom of the new Federation. But one hardly dares to hope for such a happy ending to the long miserable story of the Balkans. INDEX Adrian, Emperor, 89 Adrianople, 14, 65, 68 description of, 90 Turkish occupation of, 26 Adriatic coast, 150 Sea, 45 Aegean Islands, 62 Sea, 45 Alani, the, 10 Albania, 14, 17, 62 condition of, 194 Albanian character, 173, 193 massacres, 89 mountains, 152 Alexander of Battenberg. _See_ Alexander of Bulgaria Alexander, King of Bulgaria, 47 abdication of, 48 Alexander the Great, 6 American war correspondents, 99 Amurath I., Sultan of Turkey, 27 Amurath II., Sultan of Turkey, 27 Architecture, 158 Arjenli, 131 Armenia, 6 Art, applied, 163, 164 modern, 164, 165 Arts and crafts, 162 Asia Minor, invasion of, 17 Asiatic invasions, 11, 12 Assyria, 6 Astrakhan, 9 Austria, 28 and Serbia's trade, 125 Austrian ambitions in the Balkans, 45, 46, 49 war correspondents, 99, 105 Autonomy of the Christian Provinces, 57 Bajayet, Sultan of Turkey, 27 Balkan Alliance, 18, 21, 45, 53, 55, 57, 59, 74, 174, 194 possibilities of, 82 Balkan casualties in the war, 87, 88 character, 124 Committee, the, 91 development, 174 diplomacy, 56, 57 disunion, 75-77, 79 mountains, 3, 151 Balkan Peace Conference, 1912, 75, 78, 80, 81, 176, 188 second phase, 84, 85 spokesman, 83 Balkan peasants, 176 peoples as linguists, 148 politicians, 176 priests, 176 statesmen, 78, 92 War of 1912, 46, 54, 107 War resumed, 84 women, 159 Baltic Sea, 4, 6 Banking, 168, 170 Bashi-Bazouks, 26, 39, 43, 190 Basil, the Bulgar-slayer, 14 Beetroot cultivation, 169 Belgrade, 16, 124, 146 siege of, 27 Bessarabia, 32 Birrell, Major E. T. F., R.A.M.C., 143 Bishop Babylas of Montenegro, 36 Black Sea, 3, 5, 120 littoral, 150 Blood-mist, the, 175 Bosnia, 39, 49 British Army Medical Detachment, 69 opinion, 83 Red Cross Hospital, 143 surgeons, 142 Bucharest, 30, 109 Buda-Pest, 109 Bulgaria, 13, 22, 37 an autonomous principality, 44 beaten, 88 boundaries of (1830), 44 foreign influences in, 97 government of, 40 liberation of, 30 under Serbian rule, 17 a Turkish province, 22, 25 and universal suffrage, 40 at war, 127, 128 _Bulgaria of To-day_, extract from, 23