All the Russias. By E. C. Phillips. (Cassell and Co.)—A
good deal of information about Russia and Russian people and things is here given, in a series of conversations between certain Russian children, and in a narrative of their life. Of course, things are represented with more of the couleur de rose upon them than they actually possess. But there is much that is quite true to be learnt from this little book ; nor is it at all objectionable that the readers for whom it is intended should see the favourable side of the subject only. Sympathy with the world outside the borders of their own experience is the feeling which it is desired, and very properly desired, to encourage. The little Russians, by-the-way, seem to have had a most uncompromisingly truthful narration of the Crimean War from their English governess.
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