Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade

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First edition. Original wrappers. Very good, fresh-looking copy, short separation at base of spine fold, front wrapper with small chip in lower right corner, rear wrapper with even smaller chip at tip of lower left corner. Judging from the relative abundance of decent copies of this pamphlet, one would think a remainder had surfaced not long ago, but this copy has some history to it; on the outside margin of the back of the front wrapper a very small purchase note was written dated in September, 1917, stating the pamphlet was a first edition and was rare. In 1876 the Ottomans had brutally suppressed a Bulgarian revolt. News of the atrocities committed by the Ottomans moved William Gladstone, who was out of power, to call for Russian intervention. Swinburne's pamphlet was a riposte to the interventionist policy advocated by Gladstone in his pamphlet The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East and also by Thomas Carlyle. He powerfully argued that Britain and Russia, not to mention Christendom, for that matter, hardly had unblemished humanitarian records; only ten years before, Carlyle had supported the conduct of the controversial Governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre. In the event, war between Russia and Turkey broke out the following year. N° de ref. del artículo 5400

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