Russia - Political and Social #247349

OF late years Russia has attracted more and more of the attention of England and the civilised world. This attention is the more significant, as its object is not now, as formerly, only the Govern ment. That which engages it is the country itself, the people. Many publications on Russia, multitudes of translations from Russian novelists, are a clear proof of this. I hope, therefore, that I need not explain the reasons that have urged me to undertake this work. I have tried, as much as possible, to bring it within the reach of the general public by making it as brief as possible, and at the same time sufficiently thorough and serious for the reader to study in it Russia as a whole.