The Rule of Islam; its Rise and Decay. By Archibald
J. Dann. (Samuel Tinsley.)—Not much can be expected, when twelve centuries or more are to be crowded within the compass of a moderate-sized octave. Still a sketch of this kind has its uses. A considerable por- tion of it is devoted to recent history. This, perhaps, is the most needed. Recent events fall curiously out of remembrance, and indeed it is positively harder to learn about them than it is about the more dis- tant. The history of the twenty years since the Crimean war, and of what the Turks have been doing since then, is especially worth noting. Why was the Emperor of the French to be listened to with attention and respect when he appealed on behalf of the Syrian Christians, and the Czar to be execrated when he did the same for the Bulgarians ? Who has done most, not in the fancies of crazy alarmists, but in actual deed, to endanger our Eastern possessions, Russia or France ? Which was it that attacked Egypt ?
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