Mr. HENRY W. NEVINSON:
ALBANIA as an independent State is a very recent newcomer to the society of nations, but her short history is studded with stirring events—wars and revolts, frontier incidents and treaties revised and revised again. Before this last development, Albania was for centuries tho mountain home of a race of wild and hardy hill-men, whose allegiance to the Ottoman Empire was never more than nominal, and both the country and its inhabitants are pre-eminently picturesque. Mr. Nevinson is one of the foremost literary travellers of this century; his long record of service as a war-correspondent in all parts of the world has given him experience and observation without ever dulling his appreciation of new things, and his very fine prose style gives his writing a permanent place in the literature of travel.