Jelalabad, from Piper's Hill




[Illustration: MAP Showing the Advances of RUSSIA towards INDIA
1734-1884.]




AFGHANISTAN
AND THE
ANGLO-RUSSIAN DISPUTE



I.

THROUGH THE GATES OF ASIA.


In universal history there is no more interesting subject for the
consideration of the political student than the record of Russian
progress through Central Asia.

In one sense this advance is a practical reestablishment or
extension of the influence of the Aryan race in countries long
dominated by peoples of Turki or Mongolian origin; in another