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THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA.
THE STATE VERSUS THE MAN.
THE TRUE STORY OF WAT TYLER.
M. JULES FERRY AND HIS FRIENDS.
ORGANIC NATURE’S RIDDLE.
CONCERNING EYES.
BIG ANIMALS.
A DAY OF STORM.
SOME TURKISH PROVERBS.
MACPHERSON’S LOVE STORY.
WHEN SHALL WE LOSE OUR POLE-STAR?
LAUREL.
THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GHOST STORIES.
THE GERMAN ABROAD.
GEORGE SAND.
SOME INTERESTING WORDS.
SOCIAL SCIENCE ON THE STAGE.
A COMMENT ON CHRISTMAS.
THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF WAR.
A MASTER IN ISLAM ON THE PRESENT CRISIS.
LITERARY NOTICES.
MISCELLANY.
Eclectic Magazine
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FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
| New Series. Vol. XLI., No. 6. | JUNE, 1885. | Old Series complete in 63 vols. |
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THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA.
BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B.
It is easier to write about the Russianadvance at the present day than it wasa few years back. The ground has beencleared of much of the rubbish whichformerly encumbered it. Not long agothe apologists of Russia were wont tocompare the progress of her arms inCentral Asia with the progress of ourown in India. We were warned of acertain law of nature which impelledcivilisation to advance on barbarism,and were asked to hail with sympathy,rather than view with suspicion, the extensionof a Power which, as it swept onin its resistless course, diffused the blessingsof order, of knowled