Publisher's Synopsis
While a large portion of the European family has beensurging westward during the last three or four hundredyears, settling the vast continents of America, another, butsmaller, portion has been doing frontier work in the OldWorld, protecting the rear by beating back the "unspeakableTurk" and reclaiming gradually the fair lands that endurethe curse of Mohammedan rule. For a long time the Slavpeople-who, after the battle of Kosovopjolje, in which theTurks defeated the Servians, retired to the confines of thepresent Montenegro, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia, and "Borderland" of Austria-knew what it was to deal, as our Western pioneers did, with foes ceaselessly frettingagainst their frontier; and the races of these countries, through their strenuous struggle against the armies of theCrescent, have developed notable qualities of bravery andsagacity, while maintaining a patriotism and independenceunsurpassed in any other nati
