PROPOSED Russo-Tunxisn FRONTIER. — Mr. Wyld has just published an interesting and
useful war map. Its main purpose is to show the new boundary line between Russia and Turkey which it is proposed to establish by the treaty of Paris. The line is clearly defined, though of course it can only give a general idea of the strip of Bessarabia to be taken from Russia, and cannot pretend to authority. But besides this main_purpose the map serves another. It presents, at one view, the series of Russian encroachments from 1721, when Russia acquired Esthonia and Livonia by the treaty of Nystadt, to 1853, when she secured the right of navigating the Amoor, and seized territory in that region. Tables in the margin give a summary of the treaties by which these encroachments were established; accompanied by estimates of the comparative magnitude of the Russian acquisitions from each country. On the whole, it is an instructive and timely publication.
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