The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-14
ouIcKsTEps THROUGH scANpINA- VIA. By Samuel q. Bayne, Publish ed by Harper X Bros, New York. x1 ohi nt Indd' a

QUICKSTEPS THROUGH sCANDINA-
 VIA. By Samuel c. Bayne, Publish
 ed by Harper X Bros, New York.
 sl.2b; at Judds.
 The full title of this interesting and finely embelished book is: Quick steps Through Scandinavia, With d Retreat from Moscow. Although Mir. Bayne's book was designed for circu- lation among personal friends and ac- quaintances, q much wider call for 1t was developed owing to it's attractive ness. both in subject matter and H. lustrations. The shape of this thin volume admits of illustrations of good size. Mir. Bayne is banker who has an eye to the picturesque and q keen sense of humor and his observations and descriptions are pointed and witty, The book Is thoroughly informal and thoroughly enjoyable and affords con siderable information which Is rec corded in racy style For instance take the experience in Russia of Mir. Bayne and his fellow voyager and traveller, Harvard student, when they lit upon the Idea of joining In q huge funeral procession in order to get Into the Kremlin. They removed their hats and fell in line, but Bar gar, the name of Mir. Bayne's friend, | forgot and put on his hat again while l lighting cigar. A big mounted Cossack quickly spied him, and dashed up and knocked his hat of with his drawn sword The hat got trampled under foot and Bargar never l saw it again. In the meantime how 1 ever. during the excitement, he neg l lected to take the cigar out of his mouth, and another Cossack rode up and jerking if out of his mouth, threw 1t away, Then, after all, they were so near the end of the procession and the crowd was SO great that they couldn't get into the KremlIn. As to the Cossacks, Mir. Bayne says.
 In explanation of the insulting con. l duct of these Cossacks it may he salt | that since the Russian troubles beRar tho czar has practlally put the whol' country into their hands as he feell l that they are about the only body e
 
 l of spelling them; they dominate tn, i streets, the railroads. and almost every | thing else. and if you don't do exactly as they want you to do they first sla, i you on the back with the naked sword l and if you are slow they will prod yol i in the ribs with It's point They ar, l taught Co look through you as If yo, i were q pane of glass and ignore you- 1 very existence They never answel 1 questions or give you any information i These are new conditions In Russia l brought about by the Japanese war ant l it's effect on the country All classe, are sore, sour and broke" They hay, 1 lost their money. are tax-racked an, 1 their boasted military and naval repu l tation has been knocked into a cooked i hat. They can't look foreigners in thu face, and hate to meet or mingle witt them.
 Another sample will further Illus. trate This episode occurred as the ] author was steaming through the 1 Baltic:
 During the passage through differ ent countries I had accumulated q 1 good many coins of different values and they were beginning to bother me | so 1 made up my mind to ret rid oi | them. The cashier of our steamer was a lady of middle age and vast proportions perhaps, indeed, best de. | scribed as top weight in the human weter handicap, in at three hundred 1 pounds without penalties or allow