“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 918. Je. 24. ‘05. 340w. |
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. [Russia.] $5. Holt.
An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in 1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants, burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government, religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long residence among them.
“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading value.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 37. Jl. 8. 1990w. |
“It covers a much broader field than M. Ular even thinks of attempting.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 410. N. ‘05. 230w. |