| + + | Acad. 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w. |
Durham, M. Edith. Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”
“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w. |
“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman, unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.
| + + | Dial. 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w. |
“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”