Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 5: From Nov. 1872, to April, 1873 Ah, these subtle differences of race The true Russian is taller, slenderer, fairer. His features are more harmonious, and his move ments have a grace and agility to which the heavy-limbed Finn is a stranger. In the at titudes and bearing of the lowest peasants there is often an ease and dignity such as ih vests the Arab In his desert tent, or the Syrian threading his narrow sheets with a serene poise, the gift, not of breeding, but Of birth; while their eyes and their songs - Speech of the soul - betray a melancholy that touches the heart and kindles the imagination. This sadness is doubtless owing to the infelicities of their life for generations, and to the dreary monotony of a country where the earth wakes but for a moment to the caress of summer, and then falls back into winter death, wrap ped in a shroud of snow over which chill winds chant perpetual requiem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.