Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... A symbol of hospitality this salt becomes later, when time and distance have had a chance to lend it poetic flavor and glamor. You remember that gorgeously arrayed Lord Mayor of St. Petersburg whom we saw at the Troitsky Bridge (Stereograph 38) had only the day before ceremonially offered bread and salt to the royal guests of the Czar as a token of the national welcome. With us, the actual, material stuff is so cheap a commodity that it is indeed a scathing estimate of a man's practicality to declare that he is "not worth his salt." But if we ourselves had to earn not only our salt but our bread too, working like these heavy-faced women of Solinen, we should find our own economic problems desperately intensified. Well, Russia must solve her own problems. She is not quite ready for General Federations of Women's Clubs. We probably have enough to do minding our own affairs, personal and national, without undertaking to lay out her course of procedure. The Lord and the Czar must work it out together. It is time for us to go. We have crossed the land of the Slav from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and we come to the shore whence we can look off to other worlds. 100. The Black Sea, from the Russian Coast. There is something endlessly fascinating about this outlook as we stand on the shore and gaze over the dancing waters. If we could go " flying, flying south," beyond that distant horizon, what should we find? Miles on miles of sea; then the ancient lands of Asia Minor, where the heroes of the Iliad fought, with gods for and against them, and whence .Eneas came to be the founder of the Roman world and of western civilization. Then we should cross the eastern end of the blue Mediterranean where the merchants of Tyre and Sidon went on their...