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 v./ THE YEAR 1853 AND THE YEAR 1870. A PREFACE TO THE PKESENI EDITION. » ' Guarantee.' ' august master/ ' good faith,' ' his • 'Majesty's well known magnanimity' — -'the Pruth,' 5 'the Danube/ 'the Balkan;' 'Bulgaria, high-road to Constantinople,' — the air once more is so charged i with the language of Czarinas and Czars, and the j- unly from the unstudied sounds— one might fancy • the strange fitful drama which 1 long ago traced in
 * names of their neighbours' landmarks, that — judging
 * these pages to be now again acting before us.

i And indeed, though along with sharp contrasl
 * there is many a point of real likeness between the

' story of 1853 and the one we now see going on.
 * Amongst the foremost of the causes which help to

bring about this recurrence, there must be reckoned that crusading spirit of the north which, though stir ring the heart of the millions much more deeply than the mind of their rulers, is nevertheless very stcadfa t. a