. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across INTERVIEWING AN EDITOR. thousand copies—at least according to the figures at my command. TheMoscow Gazette is more frequently quoted by foreign writers than anyother journal in Eussia; and if it were published in French rather thanin Eussian, we should probably hear of it even more frequently than wedo. Its a pity they dont give us a French edition of it, said Frank. I would like very much to read the paper and know what it has to say, BISM
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across INTERVIEWING AN EDITOR. thousand copies—at least according to the figures at my command. TheMoscow Gazette is more frequently quoted by foreign writers than anyother journal in Eussia; and if it were published in French rather thanin Eussian, we should probably hear of it even more frequently than wedo. Its a pity they dont give us a French edition of it, said Frank. I would like very much to read the paper and know what it has to say, BISMARCK AND GORTCHAKOFF. 133 but of course I cant as long as it is in Russian. French is the diplomaticlanguage, and I wonder they dont make an edition for foreign circu-lation. Did you ever hear, remarked the Doctor, with a smile, of the at-tempt of Prince Bismarck to have German take the place of French asthe language of diplomacy ? Neither of the boys had heard the anecdote, which the Doctor gave asfollows: Shortly after the close of the Franco-German War, in 1870, Bismarckthought he would establish German as the diplomatic language, and with. PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF. this object in view he made use of German instead of French in an offi-cial communication to Prince Gortchakoff, the foreign minister of promptly replied to the communication, and w^ote in saw the joke, and desisted from further attempts to carry outhis design. Returning to our subject, said the Doctor, there are daily jDapers 134 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. in the large towns of Russia, and weekh^ or semi-monthly papers in thesmaller ones ; but with its population of one hundred millions, the Em-pire has less tlian one-tenth as many newspapers as we have in the UnitedStates, and probably not more than one-fiftieth, or even one-hundredth, ofthe circulation. The first printing-press in Russia was set up in 1564. The firstnewsj)aper was printed at Moscow in 1704, and th
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