16 APRIL 1864, Page 21

Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Political and Social Sketches on

Russia, Greece, and Syria, in 1861-2-3. By Henry Arthur Tilley. (Longman and Co.)—The author seems to have travelled under the auspices of the Russian Government, sailing about the Mediterranean in a Russian ship of war. His bias may therefore be readily guessed. He hopes much for Russia, little for Poland or Greece. But his book is nevertheless temperate, and the sketch of Russian institutions valuable, for the best-known writers on the subject are violently anti- Russian. The style is excellent, and the account of the last Greek revolution extremely amusing. The book is decidedly worth reading.