Abstract

Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War

The article presents information on the book "Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War," by Edmund Ollier. The book is one of those hasty compilations of contemporaneous history, executed in installments during the course of the events which they are to record. The whole history of both Russia and Turkey, from the foundation of those empires to the outbreak of the war, is sketched at length in a number of chapters. To demand strict correctness from ephemeral compilations of this character would be applying an unfair standard of criticism. The war events and political complications are related with laudable minuteness, in a pleasant, unadorned style, without any attempt at creating effect by sensational coloring.