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0441448 of readers this volume will pre-
Itte tttil xi 'el? high order. The fame
488411 aPka a •
War kilita ,ac as an able and all
leetetll, indu r 3 leader in the last Hunga-
t bet his opiniee many to look with great
; pb, Weee tl._ las relative to the contest now
etkt the four allied powers and Rus-
lit 1404 • Peealiar •
1,11444 nth 410 views entertained by him,.
a thihatid 40, views
of his countrymen, relative
114 '°eielit's‘rian despotism, will be with
kikt Vith
ea reason for receiving his animad-
!4 .ai the olfltim, if not with distrust and
4tted t.„ t ttxt these views is less or more justi-
'tthe :the A °f the book which he has sub-
hii "(144 "kion, and in some degree also
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ticl/417 the
11,-itiof the British people.
.His re-
p nit4o larger import r iS a reference to its being of
4 itie tnalotie itace thari a mere settlement of
kle tatiblo.Position of the Turkish empire.
14to jital!kitropslea°t, the question is.
of the
'''. the'kite °lle, and in this view _ _
in the widest
4 ilk kliovi%sat the conclusion of his specula
I. , kst et 41 as
6-4„14 .14,1 4cTl3 v"--cacii OUGHT TO REGITLATE THE
Ikht illt tlle3r 'recall of • expedition, and the
104:. 1,14i4,i the Crimean
litie--41, the ..t 1,.21 seat of war ininththeeEßaaslttitcoptrhoe.
44,4 a ki.ititeatiirng of an army
Id ill tY4, 1)3,0 ty pof an alliance with Sweden.-3. The
tree) the e 814%0 13.(1,—The repudiation of Austrian
ill 03-),) Peat
°flung her to declare for or against.
tibier:titr be her joining the enemy—which can
doubted—The formation of a Dant-, :pe,i,,,e iii,t ...to include all the provinces, not Ger-
'ot.,lll44,:tver, with Hungary as their centre.-
2.N1 the , 1.4 liberation of Italy.-6. The employ-
kg the
.e A tirkislt forces in Asia.
Itkedokijojead.er, now familiar with the splendid
14: siege of Sebastopol, the first reeom.-
4 of our author is more likely to beget a
!kid. Against his opinions than any practical
,Nliee • • •
lii his views. This, together with the
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fact that in the great struggle still pending he
sees only the one and as yet unrecognised political
virtue, " the liberation of the oppressed nationali-
ties," will lead to a suspicion that much of his
reasoning is the result of an overheated imagina-
tion. Those who so conjecture, however, would
be betrayed into an unjust estimate of the book
and of the man.
A soldier, and a good one himself, General
Klapka looks on the whole arrangements of the
war with the eye of a military critic, and passes
his remarks in a spirit of calm and dispassionate
observation. He estimates the military operations.
of the Allies as not entitled to much commenda-
tion, and curtly, yet smartly condemns their
diplomacy as short-sighted and weak. He strongly
maintains that " the conquest of the Crimea "
can only be accomplished by successful operations
on the continent, and confidently forte's the failure
of the siege operations carried on before Sebas-
topol. Under present circumstances, of course,
this prediction must sound like nonsense ; but
when it is borne in mind that the prediction
referred to the state of matters, during the spring
and early part of the summer, when the opinion
so expressed was entertained by many men who
are looked on as good authorities, much of the
seeming absurdity is removed. How little soever
the gallant general may be entitled to reputation
as a seer, his observations on the military opera-
tions which have been carried on by the Allies
since their landing in the Crimea, are entitled,
from his own comparative successes, to no small
amount of attention and regard. As already
intimated, he regards the Crimean invasion as a
blunder in military strategy, and maintains that
the war should have been directed against the
Caucasian provinces, as the only vulnerable por-
tions of the Russian Empire in the south-east.
In respect to the brave inhabitants of these
regions, our author makes some sensible obser-
vations, and thus concludes his remarks on

THE CIRCASSIAN RESISTANCE TO THE MUSCOVITE.
All the efforts and sacrifices of Russia to subjugate the
heroic races of the Caucasus have met with only partial
and unsatisfactory results. Though the circle of their
attack gradually draws closer and closer, and the defenders
are driven farther and farther into the interior of their
mountain fastnesses, yet their resistance and courage con-
tinue as determined as ever ; and the smaller portion of
them in the exposed valleys alone bend their proud necks
beneath the Russian yoke. The rest are still free and
independent, replying both to the promises and the
assaults of their aggressors with bullet and yategan. But
whether oppressed or free, all races entertain a deadly and
unconquerable hatred to everything that bears the name of
Russian.

In a supplement to these observations, General
Klapka insists on the policy of enrolling, subsi-
dizing, and supporting an army, 50,000 strong,
of those hardy mountaineers, who would, he says,
be admirably qualified for thwarting the despotic
views of Russia. This may be, and in all proba-
bility is true, so far as it goes. There are, how-
ever grave reasons for doubting the likelihood of
such a combination being efficacious in defeating
the aggressive objects of Russia. That the effect
of such an organization would materially hamper
the military operations of the Czar cannot be
doubted, and it will readily suggest itself to all
thinking men to question the impropriety of ab-
staining from it, few such being inclined to coun-
tenance the drawing-room style of warfare which