Excerpt from Kismet or the Doom of Turkey At the moment these opinions were not received with much favour. I did not expect that they would be. But of late, if I am not much mistaken, there has been a considerable change in public feel ing; and, certainly, nearly every Englishman that, since the commencement of the war, has written and published letters upon Turkey, whether as a correspondent to The Times or other influential journal, or as an officer or mere traveller, has (more or less decidedly) adopted my views as to the mischievous effect of the late changes, and the real helplessness and decrepitude of the Ottoman State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.