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Russian Political Institutions 
By MAXIME HOVALEVSHY 
Formerly Professor of Public Law at the University of Moscow 
A sketch of Russian Political Institutions, past and present. The author’s task has been 
to give a bird’s-eye view of the internal development of Russia 
English-speaking peoples has 
CG the present time the standard work on Russia for 
been Mackenzie Wallace's vol- 
ume. The aim of Professor Kovalev- 
sky’s book differs widely. Instead of A > | 
aiming “‘to convey a general idea of time y 
the country and people’ (as Wallace } 
phrases his object), it is essentially ex- and 
pository—the history of an evolution. 
This history has never before been 
written in English. In the main the interesting 
book is one for the student and the 
scholar, ina much more intimate sense 
than is, for instance, Professor Bryce’s book 
American Commonwealth. But the sec- 
tions dealing with the emancipation of 
the serfs, local self-government, and, 
especially, the universities and the press, will be found to con- 
tain matter not only not elsewhere accessible, but of universal 
interest. 
writers have contributed so much to our knowledge of Russian institutions, ancient and 
modern, is Professor Maxime Kovalevsky, and no one else could have written so satisfactory a little 
history to the present time, as Professor lags 18 as done in his Russian Political Institutions. The 
opening oe pear anual reece in length, he Making of Russia,’’ may be commended to all 
students of sociology a admirable exa mole of ‘eon and balanced attention Xs the various factors of 
Bicontaca, race, aa “ e, Shs pd ae ideas, and customs entering into the social evolution of a 
Great, of Catherine II., of Alexander II., on the past and present position of Poland in the Russian Em- 
pire, and on the past and present position of Finland in the Russian Empire. All of these chapters are 
compact with information and sound judgment.—Foditical Science Quarterly 
310 pp., royal 8vo, cloth; $1.50, ze¢; postpaid, $1.60. 
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