Mr. W. S. L. Szyrma on the Relation of the 
had become converted by Russian missionaries, and had partially 
adopted Slavonic language and customs. They had a prince of the 
race of Vladimir for their chief, and his family soon mingled with 
the Uralian blood of his subjects. To draw their people into some 
kind of civilization, these Dukes gathered the wandering hordes into 
a city, which they called Moscow. Here, devastated by invasion, 
subjugated by the Tartars, persecuted almost by nature herself, they 
founded one of the greatest empires of the world. As they huddled 
round their fires in the long winter nights, and heard with envy the 
tales that their wandering merchants brought of the sunny lands of 
Europe, the Muscovites treasured up the old prophecy that had been 
handed down from time immemorial, that these fair lands should be 
theirs. Still perhaps the old tradition lingered in the memory of 
the Finns, that their forefathers had once spread over Europe, but 
had been driven back, step by step, by those sons of Japhetb. 
To attain their object the Muscovites have sacrificed every right 
of Man. They have slavishly obeyed any tyrant who could by 
treachery or violence lead them one step onwards to the promised 
land. With dogged obstinacy they have bided their time. Their 
Dukes licked the mare's milk off the manes of the Tartar's horse, 
with a sullen docility, that could only forbode vengeance. The 
Tartars were driven back. Other Uralians joined tlie Muscovites. 
The Slavonic republic of Novogrod, first of European states, fell. 
The Queen of the North has now sunk to a second-rate provincial 
town. Her slaughtered citizens have dyed the waters with their 
blood. Then Great Russia yielded, and the East of Little Russia 
was subdued by cunning rather than force. The Czar Peter claimed 
the proud title of " Emperor of All the Russias," when he only 
possessed one out of the five, and to this day Red Russia partly 
belongs to Austria. The very title whereby the Czar wishes himself 
to be known points to a future aggression. 
Another and far greater nation of the Indo-European family was 
next subjugated by the Turanian hordes of Muscovy ; and Poland is 
