"All the Russias; Travels acd Studies in Contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central 4 By. Henry Norman, MP. London, William Heinemann, 1902. Price 18.- nett.
The many readers who found both pleasure and profit in x perusal of the for-vier works of Henry Norman will welcome with delight the appearance of another Selume from his gifted peu—a work, too, Which is in every respect, worthy of its predecessors, and which will, redoubt not, Rinly sustain if not augment the reputation the Wolverhampton M.-P. as a fear writer and close observer.
The present work is a bulky and solid volume of nearly 500. pages, embel-Tished. with 137 beautiful illustrations from the author's photographs. There are also four well-executed maps specially Grawn for this volume, which are very helpful to enable the reader tv follow the traveller's peregrinations.
End respect for the Russian people, together with a better comprehension of the important part that the Russian Empire is destined to play in the future his-Rory of the world. For this vast Empire—Second only to that of the Empire upon Shich the sun never sets—is expanding its population of neatly 130,000,000 per-fond, increasing at an abnormal rate; and the' can foresee what the future has in More for such a colossal power with its vast Seserve of strength and its unceasing onward march! series of powerful Grticles published some years ago in one of the English monthly magazines, in which {il the worst traits of the Russian character Sere brought forward, and not without Cxaggeration, while their better and more Sttaketive characteristics were altogether ignored, have done much to give the Ebslish-speaking people distorted, biased, and untrustworthy conception of Russia and her people. Mr. Norman, however, does not err in this direction, indeed, his sympathies seem to' be all fon the other side, for he sees much in She Russian character fo admire and R a te 5
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