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 ^iV JOYFUL RUSSIA. By John A. Logan, Jr. With 50 Illustrations in color and black and white. lamo. Cloth, $3.50. "Of extreme interest from beginning to end. Mr. Logan has anima- tion of style, good spirits, a gift of agreeable and enlivening expression, and a certain cham which may be called companionableness. To travel, with him must have been a particular pleasiune. He has sense of humor, a way of getting over roug^ places, and tmderstanding of human nature. There is not a dull duster in nis book." — New York Ttmes, leaves nothing to be desired for thedr osmprehension ; widi an eye that was quick to perceive their novelty, their picturesqueness, their national agnifi- cance, and with a mind not made up beforehand — frankly open to new impressions, alert in its percepdoos, reasonable in its judgment, manly, independent, and, like its environments, filled with holiday enthusiasm." — New York Mail and Express. and Russian life has appeared. . . . The au&or has described picturesquely and in much detail whatever he has touched upon. . . . Few books of travel are at once so readable and so informing, and not many are so suc- cessfully illustrated; for the pictures tell a story of their own, while they also interpret to the eye a vivid narradve." — Boston Herald. "A chronicle of impressions gathered during a brief and thoroughly enjoyed holiday by a man with eyes wide open and senses alert to see and hear new things. Thoroughly successful and well worth perusal . . . There will be found within its pages plenty to instruct and entertain tlie reader." — Brooklyn Eagle. " The book is a hbtorical novelty; and nowadays a more valuable dis- tinction can not be attached to a book. . . . No other book of travels of late years is so unalterably interesting." — Boston journal. that is entertaining and amusing, and not unworthy to be called instructive. The style is at all times lively and spirited, and full of good humor."— PkUadelphia Press. most of opportunities, and his book is very interesting. . . . He has made a thorous^y readable book in which history and bioeraphy are brought in to give one a good general impression of afuurs." — Hartford Post, " Mr. Logan has presented in attractive language, re-enforced by many beaudful |>hotographi5, a most entertaining narradve of his personsd experi- ences, besides a dazzling panorama of the coronadon ceremonies. . . . Read without prejudice on die subject of the Russian mode of government, the book is unusually able, instrucdve, and entertainmg." — Boston Globe, "Mr. Logan departs from the usual path, in telling in clear, simple, good style alx>ut the indmate life of the Russian ^^^X^ — Baltimore Sun, D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. NEW YORK.
 * Mr. Logan has written of the things which he saw widi a fullness that
 * No more fresh, original, and convincing picttue of the Russian people
 * Mr. Logan's narrative is spirited in tone and color. ... A volume
 * Mr. Logan has a quick eye, a ready pen, a determination to make die