The key to more than one Balkan problem lies within the Habsburg dominions — a fact which seems to have escaped the notice of the British Press during the present crisis. I have therefore endeavoured in my concluding chapter to show the bearings of the racial question in Hungary upon certain neglected problems of the Near East. I am fortunate enough to be able to include three short chapters on Slovak Popular Art, by Mr. Dusan Jurkovic, the talented Slovak architect who is doing so much to revive 'the old artistic traditions of his race, and from 'whose portfolio of photographs a number of my illustrations are selected.