Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . -eastern Europe. To-dayRussia is hammering at the Afghan gates and this is as true now as it was whenthe brilliant Frenchman said it. TheTurkish empire, with its innumerabletraditions, with its religious formulasand its fanaticism, its lust o
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . -eastern Europe. To-dayRussia is hammering at the Afghan gates and this is as true now as it was whenthe brilliant Frenchman said it. TheTurkish empire, with its innumerabletraditions, with its religious formulasand its fanaticism, its lust of conquestand its rapacity and injustice in deal-ing with subjugated provinces, will re-main in history as a warning to civilizedpowers not to degenerate into role in Europe is practically at anend, and this is a sufficient gain for themoment. The en-thusiastic Slavs, whosay that out of thetwo hundred andeighty million inhab-itants of Europethere are eighty-sixmillions of their ownnationality ; that theyare more numerousthan the Germanicrace, and occupy awider space in Eu-rope than both theGermanic and Latinraces, doubtlesshoped that out ofrecent events wouldbe born the unification of their vari-ous branches, and that to a mightySlavic empire would be given the pre-ponderance of power. But this is adream which will not be realized for. for appaiently uo other reason than to many long years to come. Germany show England that she must be concilia-tory, or submit to a sudden and powerfulassault upon her Indian frontier. It is not our purpose here to enter intoa detailed account of the progress ofTurkey since the severe blow which ithas received from the numerous insur-rections in south-eastern Europe, cov-ering a period from 1875 to said long ago of the Turkthat he was only encamped in Europe, and Italy have been unified, but theSlavs must wait. Before they can bemerged in one great nation, Austriamust have disappeared, Russia musthave given evidence of
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