Excerpt from Mestrovic and Serbian Sculpture<br><br>But what is a national temperament? With reference to the Balkans, the term national or nationality has a wider signifi cation than when it refers to the more settled nations of Europe and America. The best test of Balkan nationality is a living feeling of race consciousness.<br><br>Judged by this test, the Southern Slavs form, subject to a qualification on account of differ ences of religion, a single nationality. They not only include the independent kingdom of Serbia, with the territory acquired in the last Balkan War, but also the independent kingdom of Montenegro and the various Slav communities ih cluded in the austro-hungarian Empire. Chief of these are the Serbs and Croats of Dalmatia (from whom Mestrovié is himself sprung) and Croatia, and the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.