Author of "With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem," "With Poor
Immigrants to America," etc.
_Illustrated, cloth, 8vo, $2.00_
At the outbreak of the present European war Mr. Graham was in Russia,
and his book opens, therefore, with a description of the way the news of
war was received on the Chinese frontier, one thousand miles from a
railway station, where he happened to be when the Tsar's summons came.
Following this come other chapters on Russia and the War, considering
such questions as, Is It a Last War?, Why Russia Is Fighting, The
Economic Isolation of Russia, An Aeroplane Hunt at Warsaw, Suffering
Poland: A Belgium of the East, and The Soldier and the Cross.
But "Russia and the World" is not by any means wholly a war book. It is
a comprehensive survey of Russian problems. Inasmuch as the War is at
present one of her problems, it receives its due consideration. It has
been, however, Mr. Graham's intention to supply the very definite need
that there is for enlightenment in English and American circles as to
the Russian nation, what its people think and feel on great world
matters. On almost every country there are more books and more concrete
information than on his chosen land. In fact, "Russia and the World" may
be regarded as one of the very first to deal with it in any adequate
fashion.
"It shows the author creeping as near as he was allowed to the firing
line. It gives broad views of difficult questions, like the future of
the Poles and the Jews. It rises into high politics, forecasts the terms
of peace and the rearrangement of the world, east and west, that may
follow. But the salient thing in it is its interpretation for Western
minds of the spirit of Russia."--_London Times._