The present political condition of Poland is the more impressive, as we remember that she was a great civil power when Russia was little better than semi-barbarous.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It is in many respects a barbarous land.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
S. S. Jones of St. Charles, Illinois, thus remarks upon this Act:- Thus we see a corrupt husband, with money enough to corrupt a Superintendent, can get rid of a wife as effectually as was ever done in a more barbarous age.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard