The Princeton Review (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: out of another: how much more when that other is a language at once so precise and so flexible as the Greek " ? Such questionings go deeper, and affect the value of literary and linguistic education in general. If we wish for that all-around culture of which Mr. Lowell is so eminent an example, must we not insist that some language equally rich and equally valuable remain an indispensable basis ? And what class of men are more competent to speak on such topics than men of letters ? Bancroft's History Of The Pacific Coast; Alaska And CaliFornia. The first feeling on the part of every one who takes up this volume on Alaska is one of surprise that so much could be said about this comparatively wild portion of our domains. It might almost be called the history of an unknown land; and the fact that its materials have been taken from so many and such diverse sources gathered into one library, is most creditable to the author of this rather remarkable series of volumes. He first gives us an insight into the philosophy of that great movement which took place in Europe, and which seemed to send the crowded peoples of that continent to the eastward. This was particularly true in Russia at the time of which he writes; the people were beginning to feel the pressure of their despotic rulers, and believing these sovereigns to be God's vicegerents, and not to be opposed, they resolved to escape from their influence and power. The expanse to the East became a real blessing to the oppressed, and we are tempted to believe that despotism may have its uses. The turbulent spirits at first went of their own accord to Siberia, and afterward the " paternal" Government gained strength enough to send them there. The almost accidental raid of Yermak began the long journey of the Russians acros...