Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . - of checkmatingRussia ; the Austrian designs on Bosniaand Herzegovina were set forth; theindependence of Servia was confirmed ;the Russian conquests in Asia were con-sidered, and the treaty of San Stefanothoroughly overhauled. The dexteroush
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . - of checkmatingRussia ; the Austrian designs on Bosniaand Herzegovina were set forth; theindependence of Servia was confirmed ;the Russian conquests in Asia were con-sidered, and the treaty of San Stefanothoroughly overhauled. The dexteroushand of Prince Bismarck was more thanonce interposed with marked advantageto the harmonious working of the con- EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 787. 788 EUROPE IX STORM AXD CALM. ference. The alterations in EuropeanTurkey effected by the treaty, which wasthe outcome of the Berlin Congress, werenot so great as those intended by thetreaty of SanStefano, but were enormous,and had for their substantial result thebanishment of the Turk, who had growntired of the lands he so longmisgoverned. To-day hehas but a slender footholdin Constantinople, and ismenaced even in his i)Os-session of this historiccapital. Lord Beacons-field and his followersclaimed that the treaty ofBerlin placed the Turkishempire in a position of in-dependence ; hut this isaltogether too much toclaim for it. It did indeedprotect what little was leftof the Turkish P^mpire inEurope, but that was solittle as to be scarcelyworth preserving. Themodifications of the SanStefano treaty were, how-ever, numeious. The newtreaty divided the so-calledBulgaria into two prov-inces, — one to the north of the Bal-kans being tributary to the Sultan;one to the south, Eastern Eoumelia
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