Word: russia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...procure information bearing on the subject in a convenient form, but we should recommend the reading of any of Turgenieff's novels, more especially "Virgin Soil," as an excellent way to get a fair and at the same time sympathetic idea of the great movement now progressing in Russia. There is also a book entitled "Underground Russia," which is of inestimable value in giving one an idea of the inside workings of nihilism. It is written by a nihilist leader at present exiled in England, and is authoritative as an expression of revolutionary views...
...tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
...polyglot man who spoke in fifty-eight languages, and who, in that respect, has never been surpassed by any one - I mean of course, the Cardinal Mezzofanti. In order to puzzle the man who used to puzzle everybody, I began to speak to him in the language of Little Russia. 'What language is that?' he asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little Russian, and that very fluently...
...somewhat unnaturally falls into two parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment for the preparation of the revolt is a masterly effort, and is thoroughly exhaustive. Great thought has been bestowed upon an exact statement of the causes which have unsettled the body politique of Russia, and the natural effect of these causes upon the Russian mind. The attention given to apolism and mysticism brings into prominence two comparatively new phases of the question. But the latter half of the book is hardly satisfactory, and the reader feels the failure upon the author's part...
...Godkin's first lecture on Free Trade was suggestive only of the audiences which listened last fall to Prof. Thompson's lectures on Protection. The subject of Mr. Godkin's first lecture was "Reason why free trade has not made greater advances." In the United States, Russia and Germany, protection never flourished more than in the last twenty-five years. Americans are substantially protectionists to-day. Protection has grown. England's free trade policy was due to a search for cheaper food and a zealous attack against the aristocratic classes. Had the agitation been raised on any other grounds than...