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THIS is an opportune publication, and we recommend it to our readers as one that will give them a good and lively idea of the countries referred to and their various peoples—of much interest at present in connection with the Servian rising. Mr. Evans entered Bosnia at Brod on the Save, went leisurely south, with various divergences, through the country, reaching the sea near the mouth of the Narenta and coasting along to Ragusa. Mr. Evans mixed freely with all classes of the people wherever he went, is well acquainted with Bosnian, and indeed with general European history, is a discriminating ethnologist, and has a good knowledge of botany. He studied the features and habits of the people closely as he sojourned among them, and gives many notes that might be found of value to those who take interest both in Aryan and Turanian ethnology. The people are evidently capable of good things if they had the chance and were free from oppression; but Mr. Evans's observation confirms all that has been said as to the impossibility of the Turk ever treating a Christian subject with justice or even humanity, unless compelled. The book contains a map and many attractive illustrations, is interestingly written, and will give English readers a fair idea of a country that is almost as little known to the generality as the heart of Africa.
Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September, 1875.
Arthur J.
Evans
By With a Map and 58 Illustrations. (London: Longmans and Co., 1876.)
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Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September, 1875. Nature 14, 230 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014230a0
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