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MARA - Stoyan Christowe - Crowell ($2). Story of a youthful Macedonian terrorist in the gory fight against Turkish oppression before 1912; a first novel, done with folktale simplicity, by the author of Heroes and Assassins...
Philip occasionally got drunk. Plutarch tells us of a scene at Philip's second-marriage feast when Attalus, the father of the bride, betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...
...organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story revolves around Milja Drangov, slender, striking, brown-eyed daughter of a famed leader of the movement for Macedonian independence. Her father was killed in a futile uprising against the Turks soon after her birth. With her mother, she was swept over the border in the tide of refugees, eventually adopted by a Serbian family, educated, became a village schoolteacher. A member of V. M. R. 0., disguised as a sewing...
...cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords and Masters is that in all parts of the world individuals about whom little is known are absorbed in intrigues whose exact character...
...most famed queen. The first Balkan War and the Second came and went, followed by the World War, the Greek Revolution and the birth of Albania but Dr. House kept right on teaching school. Once in 1902 he made world headlines by spending nine weeks hunting out the Macedonian bandits that had kidnapped a Miss Ellen M. Stone, missionary, and arranging for her release...