Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aughtering of studentsand intellectuals by the Black Hundred, and for othersimilar crimes which have lately been committed inRussia. But is, then, the deliverance really at hand ?The numerous pessimists, who are not well ac-quainted with the actual situation in new Russia,express their doubts. Others go even so far asto affirm that the one hundred millions of peas-ants are foreign to the revolutionary movementand were only incited by all kinds of agitatorsto rebel against the Czar. This, indeed, is a very weak argument, for historyteaches that in all great revolutions the work of de-liverance was executed by the few chosen ones who bytheir indomitable courage and their perseverance inthe execution of their well-laid plans win the confi-dence of the masses. Such honest, courageous, disin-terested, and capable leaders abouuc in Russia, and, inspite of the Tatar instincts of the reactionary officials,the old system has coUaosed once for all. 90 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI/IEIV OF REI^/EIVS.
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THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, IN 1815, AT WllUH THE FAlE OF TOEANH WAS DECIDED. (At this congress all the principal European nations were represented, and the illustration, which is from a rare steel print,shows some of the most famous delegates, including Wellington, Nesselrode, Metternich, Humboldt, and Talleyrand.) RUSSIAN POLANDS FIGHT FOR AUTONOMY. RESTATING the historical relations of thePolish people to the overstates, Russia,Austria, and Prussia, J. L. Poplawski, writingin the Przegland Wszechpoiski (Pan-Polish Re-view), of Cracow, reminds us that the legal andhistorical basis of the relation of the kingdom ofPoland to the Russian state are the provisionsof the Congress of Vienna contained in the actclosing that congress (June 9, 1815), which wasto constitute the guarantee of the treaties con-cluded, on May 3, 1815, between Russia andPrussia, and between Russia and Austria. Theparticipants in tlu; congress did not agree to thepretensions of Russia to i-egard the grand duchyof Warsaw

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