. Travels and politics in the Near East. maps and their copy-book headings about theirsovereign do them credit, and a merrier or brighter set oflads it would be difficult to find than these children ofthe Black Mountain. No university exists in the country,and higher education must be sought at Belgrade. ButCetinje, small as it is, possesses a good public reading-room in the same building as the theatre, where thewarriors in their superabundant leisure devour the news-papers of the Servian and Russian capitals, as well as thetwo organs which now compose the Press of the Princi-pality. Sometime
. Travels and politics in the Near East. maps and their copy-book headings about theirsovereign do them credit, and a merrier or brighter set oflads it would be difficult to find than these children ofthe Black Mountain. No university exists in the country,and higher education must be sought at Belgrade. ButCetinje, small as it is, possesses a good public reading-room in the same building as the theatre, where thewarriors in their superabundant leisure devour the news-papers of the Servian and Russian capitals, as well as thetwo organs which now compose the Press of the Princi-pality. Sometimes, too, the Prince provides them with 75 Travels and Politics literature in the shape of a new poem of his own, printedin letters of gold, and the eight battle-songs which hecomposed for the eight battalions of the new regularuvmY were as much admired as the famous ode to thesea which he wrote when his for the tirst timewaved on the shore of Antivaris beautiful bay, where aheap of Turkish cannon-balls and cannon, one of which. M()XTENK(,R1\ BOYS.(Frjin a Photo, by Mr. C. A. .Milh-r.) once saw Sebastopol, still bear testimony to his prowess inthe last war. Most visitors to Montenegro turn back when they havereached Cetinje, and have therefore little idea of thebeauties of Montenegrin scenery bevond the superbviews which they enjoy along the road to the capital. Ihave, indeed, seen few sights which can compare with thepanorama of the Bocche di Cattaro as one mounts theserpentine and beholds one fiord after another opening 76 in the Near East out far below one. But the country beyond Cetinje hascharms too of its own. To comprehend the fullfascination of this limestone wilderness, one must walkor ride through it by moonlight. Then the gaunt rocksassume the most fantastic shapes. At one moment oneseems to be approaching a populous town or a ruinedcastle ; and then, as one draws nearer, one perceives thatthe town is merely a vast mass of white rocks and thecastle nothing b
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