A Russian Journey. By Edna Dean Proctor. (Boston, U.S.: Osgood.
London : Triibner.)—Miss Proctor travelled from St. Petersburg to Moscow, from Moscow to the Crimea, from the Crimea to Odessa, and from Odessa to the frontier of Galicia. Everything that she saw had a rose-coloured hue, for, like all her countrymen, she was fascinated by the strange mixture of splendour and simplicity which are characteristic of Russia; and her admiration reaches its culminating point when she comes to describe the Czar. But her descriptions are bright and lively, and, though we may not trust them altogether, have doubtless a value of their own. It distresses an English reader to notice the effect produced upon the mind of an American visitor by the neglect into which the graves of our soldiers at Sebastopol have been suffered to fall.
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