Volume 1-3.
Boston: J.B. Milett Company, 1910.
Russia, the most easterly country of Europe, stretching far away across the whole of Northe
Asia to the Far East, abutting on Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and the Chinese Empire, is, next to
the British, the most powerful empire in the world. Its position and power as affecting the Orient make it an object of overpowering interest to all who have relations with that part of the globe, and few of the great world problems can be properly studied without taking into account the position which this vast empire holds with regard to them. Its history is part of European history, and of Oriental history as well; its diversified people and its vast proportions make its govement and its politics an interesting and difficult problem worthy of careful study. Its climate and its natural products, animal, vegetable, and mineral, and its manufactures are important factors in the world's commerce; the rapid growth of its people and the gradual removal of restrictions on trade from over-seas have of recent years invested it with special importance in the eyes of our own manufacturers and exporters. The religions, the morals and manners, and the education of its p eople, its language and literature, its army and navy, and in a word all that conces Russian affairs, have a profound importance for the American people, and all these and many other matters have been dealt with once for all in the three volumes devoted to the great Russian Empire. The work is the standard one on the subject. No one, before Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace wrote, has had such opportunities of studying it, and there is in no language a clearer and more interesting exposition of it.
Boston: J.B. Milett Company, 1910.
Russia, the most easterly country of Europe, stretching far away across the whole of Northe
Asia to the Far East, abutting on Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and the Chinese Empire, is, next to
the British, the most powerful empire in the world. Its position and power as affecting the Orient make it an object of overpowering interest to all who have relations with that part of the globe, and few of the great world problems can be properly studied without taking into account the position which this vast empire holds with regard to them. Its history is part of European history, and of Oriental history as well; its diversified people and its vast proportions make its govement and its politics an interesting and difficult problem worthy of careful study. Its climate and its natural products, animal, vegetable, and mineral, and its manufactures are important factors in the world's commerce; the rapid growth of its people and the gradual removal of restrictions on trade from over-seas have of recent years invested it with special importance in the eyes of our own manufacturers and exporters. The religions, the morals and manners, and the education of its p eople, its language and literature, its army and navy, and in a word all that conces Russian affairs, have a profound importance for the American people, and all these and many other matters have been dealt with once for all in the three volumes devoted to the great Russian Empire. The work is the standard one on the subject. No one, before Sir Donald Mackenzie
Wallace wrote, has had such opportunities of studying it, and there is in no language a clearer and more interesting exposition of it.