Excerpt from The Penn Monthly, Vol. 8: Devoted to Literature, Science, Art and Politics; January to December, 1877 On the other hand, Russia has overcome the financial difficulty which stood in the way of her warlike preparations. On appealing to her own people for the needed loan, she received bids enor mously in excess of what is required. For here also the fire of religious zeal has been awakened in no ordinary degree. Her priesthood, by excited and eloquent appeals from the pulpit, and by the display of pictures of the Bulgarian massacres, have aroused all classes in Holy Russia to a new crusade, and the war is for once forced upon the Czar by his people, rather than proposed to them by him. As regards the Christian champions of Turkey, Russia contemplates no attack upon them; if England is to fight, England must declare the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.