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extracts from John Hubbak's Russian Realities; 

 to Funk & Wagnalls Co., publishers, for permis- 

 sion to include extracts from John Foster Fraser's 

 Russia of To-Day; to Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, 

 D.D., for the inclusion of his addresses before his 

 congregations at Temple Keneseth Israel; to Hon. 

 Rudolph Blankenburg for the privilege of quoting 

 from his pamphlets regarding his visit to Russia in 

 1892; to R. Martens & Co., Inc d ., for extracts from 

 their monthly brochure entitled, Russia; to the 

 American Geographic Society for including a 

 writing by E. K. Reynolds; to The Continent, and 

 to the Sunday School Times for articles by Mar- 

 garet Wintringer; to Samuel McRoberts, Vice- 

 President of the National City Bank of New York, 

 for the use of his publication Russia; to the 

 Guaranty Trust Company of New York for ex- 

 tracts from their booklets relating to Russia's 

 Finance and Commerce. 



FRANCIS B. REEVES. 



