BULGARIA: Melancholy Princess

Since Boris III, King of the Bulgarians, is a bachelor his eldest sister, Princess Eudoxia, 28, has had thrust upon her by default the duties if not the title of a queen. Eudoxia, by temperament melancholy and reserved, is little known to foreigners. Therefore when the Berlin National Zeitung began to publish her "memoirs," last week, a mild sensation rippled.

Berliners, scanning Eudoxia's autobiography, became convinced that she conscientiously wrote it herself. What "feature writer" would have set down bluntly: "Bulgarian women are naturally inclined to adapt themselves to the reasoning of men....

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