Nova Istra

358 STUDIES AND ESSAYS 231 JOJA RICOV Facts and Ideas of the Novecento 233 MIRKO ĆURIĆ Nikola Tordinac – the First Croatian Translator of Karl May 241 JELENA RIBARIĆ ZAVRŠKI Erotica in ‘The Song of the Songs’ 248 CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE NATIVE REGION 257 DARKO DUKOVSKI The Short History of the Croatian-Slovene Demarcation in Istria... 259 BOŽO MILANOVIĆ The Croatian Border in the NW Istria 284 BRUNO DOBRIĆ Three Pula Public Monuments from the Austrian Period and Their Destiny 287 REVIEWS 319 TOMISLAV MARIJAN BILOSNIĆ „Lifting Up The Plane of the Earth with the Mountain” (Igor Šipić: The Koljnof Meetings) 321 „The Streams of Babble, Where Every Poem Speaks Its Own Language” (Igor Šipić: The Malversation of Forms) 327 DARIJA ŽILIĆ „The Bottom-Up Story of History” (Mile Stojić: Dunia) 330 BOŽIDAR ALAJBEGOVIĆ „The Film-Like, Stylishly Sloppy Novel” (Nenad Stipanić: Mother of God and Her Bouncers) 333 ĐURO VIDMAROVIĆ „The Book of Verses by a Poetess from Rijeka with Her Heart in Srijem” (Ljubica Kolarić-Dumić: The Wreath of Waiting) 336