Buel, J. W. A Nemesis of Misgovernment. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1904. [10218]
Teal cloth with bright gilt titles, binding clean and very good, 9 x 7 inches, all page edges gilt. 589 clean pp. printed on a glossy stock paper, many illustrations. A few light scuff marks on the back cover. The book is tight and in near-fine condition. Very good. Hardcover.
Title continues: Authorized by J. W. Buel. The Author undertook a Journey of Research to the Countries of Europe for the Purpose of Observing the different Conditions resulting from the various forms of Republican, Monarchical, and Empirical Governments. Mr. Beul's reputation as a writer is well known by newpaper readers, as well as by scholars in literature, and the contents of this book are up to his usual standard of interest and vivid description of things that he saw and principles that he studied during a sojurn of three years in foreign countries. Illustrated.
This is a significant travel account of Russia and Siberia undertaken in the 1880s. Scenes and events are recorded by an experienced reporter who has taken an interest in the people and politics of that enormously varied land. "It is my purpose to describe, in a dispassionate, ungarnished way, the crimes of Nihilism, Communism and Fenianism, to give some of the previously unwritten history of Russia, and to truthfully tell what I <i>know</I> concerning exile life in Siberia, with observations on the people and mode of living in that wonderful country." - Preface.
An earlier edition had this title: Russian nihilism and exile life in Siberia. A graphic and chronological history of Russia's bloody Nemesis, and a description of exile life in all its true but horrifying phases, being the results of a tour through Russia and Siberia.
James William Buel (1849-1920), b. Golconda, IL; American journalist and author.
