The Tsar's Window. "No-name Series." (Roberts Brothers, Boston, U.S.)—If the
name of the author is concealed, her nationality is evident. She is an American of the Americans. Her book is fall of the curious sympathy which the great Republic feels for the great Empire. It shows something, we may even say, of that liking for- Imperial splendours which is so inconsistent with democracy, and yet so often found along with it. England, of coarse, is nowhere. Its representative, Mr. Thurber, with his stiffness and reserve, is quite the Anglais pour rire with whom our friends and neighbours are accustomed to amuse themselves. Of real Russian life, we get but few and scanty glimpses. But the book is pleasantly written, and gives us some fresh and lively sketches of St. Petersburg, its streets. and palaces, its gaieties, Court ceremonials, and the like. -
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