3-082-149 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Baron Kallay, Prime Minister of Bosnia, 1895. From a Sketch by W. Scott. 'On Jan. 27, in the year 1887, Mr. Gladstone, writing to M. Emile de Laveleye, expressed his conviction that the well-being, tranquillity, and liberty of the Balkan Peninsula had come to be of more critical importance than ever to the interests of Europe. The occasion was the contemplated production by the author of "Socialism of To-Day" of a new work upon the Balkan States, for which purpose he had paid a lengthy visit to the peninsula, and had gathered a host of facts and figures to elucidate the political and economic condition then prevailing. It is in the pages of this book, now reckoned a standard work,...that one finds the best and clearest testamur to the work of Austria in its new possessions of Bosnia and of Herzegovina. Seven years ago M. de Laveleye met Baron Kallay - the maker of Bosnia - in...Vienna. He expressed astonishment that a man so young should have accomplished so much. "The empire," says he, "was formerly governed by old men; it is now in the hands of young men; it is this which gives it the mark of energy and decision. Hungarians hold the reins, and there still flow in their veins the ardour of primitive races and the decision of the knight'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.