Schem A.J. The War in The East. Illustrated History of the Conflict Russia and Turkey, With a Review of the Eastern Question

New York, Cincinnati: H.S. Goodspeed & Co., 1878. — 712 p.A Wars between two countries so extensive and so powerful as Russia and Turkey will never fail to enlist the profound interest of the civilized world, and to fill a conspicuous place in the history of the century. Russia and Turkey are among the largest empires of the earth. In point of extent, Russia is the second, and Turkey the sixth; in point of population, Russia the third and Turkey the fourth among all the States. Their aggregate population exceeds one hundred and twenty millions, or nearly one-tenth of the human race ; their united area fully occupies one-fifth of the entire surface of the land. Thus in every Russo-Turkish conflict the world again witnesses the horrors of war on a larger scale, and these horrors must be expected to be all the more frightful, as the Turks and even large portions of the Russian troops have not yet experienced that influence of the Christian religion and of the civilization of the nineteenth century which fortunately distinguishes to some extent .the wars in Western Europe and in North America from those of former times and of other countries. The Eastern war of 1877-378 has enlisted an even more general and more profound interest than its predecessors. For two years its outbreak had been anxiously looked forward to, because it was thought that it might lead to results of more than ordinary importance, and might take its place among the more memorable wars in the history of the human race. The power of the Turks has long been on the wane, and the opinion has been widely spread that they would not be able to retain much longer their hold of their Christian provinces.