PRINCE— SLAV AND CELT. 193 



particularly in his " Journal of a Writer," the last number of which, 

 January, 1881, contains a most elaborate plea for the Asiatic ex- 

 pansion of Russia in preference to a distinctly western trend. 

 Slavs and Celts are Oriental character-types in Europe requiring the 

 strong hand of western administration to guide them to efificiency. 

 Their thought-basis is from the East and they have never been thor- 

 oughly westernized. Full of individual kindliness and charm, lack- 

 ing the qualities which make for that worldly success which both 

 peoples in general despise, these eastern and western European 

 tribes, if rightly controlled and guided, should be a welcome counter- 

 balance to the too rigid materialism of the Germanic peoples and 

 the cold selfishness of the tribes of the Latin dispersion. 



