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 By STEPHEN GRAHAM

WITH THE RUSSIAN PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM

Illustrated. 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

THE ATHENÆUM.—"M. Jusserand's Pilgrim Life in the Middle Ages or Burton's or Doughty's accounts of their pilgrimages to Mecca are books of secure repute. Mr. Graham in With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem gives us a companion volume."

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"'Many think in the head,' wrote Francis Thompson, 'but it is thinking in the heart that is most wanted.' It is because this book has been pondered, and the events it describes lived 'in the heart,' that it possesses such grace and distinction. Those who have followed Mr. Graham and have watched his style becoming with every volume he has written a more and more close-fitting and appropriate garment for his thought, will not be disappointed. It is his best work—gay, beautiful, and tender; gay with the spirit of youth, beautiful with the spirit of poetry, and tender with the spirit of worship Compare these reverent and radiant pages with the bright semi-cynicism of Eothen, and you get a measure of the distance the English spirit has travelled since 1844."

THE NATION.—"The Russians have not been broken by Russia. Mr. Stephen Graham, in his beautiful and remarkable book, throws this great truth into vivid perspective. Not for him the 'grey days' of Tchekhof or the hoarse challenge of Gorky's exultant mood, not for him the symbol of Andreyev's Red Laughter This Englishman does not dwell upon the Russians' suffering, but upon their immense hope; he is preoccupied not by their material poverty but by their spiritual wealth."

THE DAILY MAIL.—"Mr. Stephen Graham is favourably known as the interpreter of modern Russia and more particularly of the peasant. To that task he brings every accomplishment. He has sympathy; he has the insight of genius and the heart of the poet. He has a rare and precious gift of style He seems to have divined by some flash of intuition the psychology of the Russian. This book will add greatly to his already great reputation. It is a pleasure to praise such work. Here he has given us an extraordinarily beautiful and interesting account of an extraordinarily interesting achievement It breaks entirely fresh ground. It makes a deep and universal appeal."

THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"The best book on Russia written by an Englishman."

THE OUTLOOK.—"Something more than a book of travel, a spiritual Murray—a very remarkable piece of work at once simple and extraordinary."

CHURCH TIMES.—"We are sure that the student of human nature and the student of religion alike will find a deep interest in this book. Its merit is the complete sympathy and the true insight with which it describes the child-like faith of the Russian peasant and his passionate love of the Saviour who died for him."

MERCURE DE FRANCE.—"C'est une longue aventure où l'on se croirait reporté au temps des croisades, et l'auteur dessine en quelques traits nets et durs des types étonnants. Voilà un livre à lire pour quiconque veut être intéressé et obligé de réfléchir."

THE TIMES (in a leading article Feb. 5, 1914).—"No living English writer has made investigations so patient and so wide into the habits and manners of the great dumb masses who are the body of the largest and the least-known nation in Europe."

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