irseii, ana tnat tne nritisn incua oi to-aay mignt te 
overrun as the Gangetic plains formerly were by 
Mongol hordes, has all but vanished before the 
more sober and practical ideas of the present time. 
Russians themselves may be pardoned the contem- 
plation of such a project, since Englishmen allowed 
this nightmare to possess them; though the calmer 
heads of our own people and the wiser spirits who 
have led Russia in the march of progress may 
well have regretted the perversity of the mass of