The Balkans A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey

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The authors of this volume have not worked in conjunction.  Widely
separated, engaged on other duties, and pressed for time, we have had no
opportunity for interchange of views.  Each must be held responsible,
therefore, for his own section alone.  If there be any discrepancies in our
writings (it is not unlikely in so disputed a field of history) we can
only regret an unfortunate result of the circumstances.  Owing to rapid
change in the relations of our country to the several Balkan peoples, the
tone of a section written earlier may differ from that of another written
later.  It may be well to state that the sections on Serbia and Bulgaria
were finished before the decisive Balkan developments of the past two
months.  Those on Greece and Rumania represent only a little later stage of
the evolution.  That on Turkey, compiled between one mission abroad and
another, was the latest to be finished.