A Ride through the Balkans. By Agnes E. Conway. (R..
Soott. 5s. net.)—In the spring of 1914 Miss Conway and a girl friend, fresh from the British School at Athens, made a long tour round Greece, visiting many out-of-the-way places and taking some charming photo- graphs. They penetrated into Northern Epirus, then in the throes of a revolution, and went northward to Montenegro and to Scutari, which was governed by Colonel Phillips with an Austro-Italian guard. Every- where they were hospitably welcomed by the peasantry. They were struck by the contrast between Slav Cettinje and Oriental Scutari—ono more proof, if any be needed, of the absurdity of the Montenegrin claim on the Albanian town. At Cattaro, in the May before the war, they found the Austrians very nervous of cameras—possibly a sign of a guilty conscience, as the war must have been planned by then. Mi's Conway's book is very good reading, and all too brief. Her father, Sir Martin Conway, contributes an introduction.
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