The other scenes Of action — Klissoura, Karlovo, Kop rivshtitsa, and the rest — appear in the course of this romance under their real names, and are the towns Of a lovely pastoral district. The story passes in the heart Of the famous Valley Of Roses, where the attar is made and over those billowy meadows, heavy with the redundant rose, over the hurrying water-courses, the groves of walnut and pear trees, the white cupolas ringed about with poplars, the little sparkling cities — over all this foreground Of rich fertility there rises the huge bulwark Of the inaccessible Balkan, snow-clad all though the tropic summer, and feeding the ?owery plain with the wealth of its cascades and torrents.