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on " The Comparative Study of Popular Life 

 and Poetry ; " and the remarkable book of 

 Vesselofsky, "The Slavonic Tales of Solomon 

 and Kitovras." 



In political and social science we have two 

 volumes of collected essays on topics of the 

 day, published by two newspapers, the Citizen 

 and the Week. There is also an interesting 

 and well-written series of studies, by M. T of, 

 on " The Eastern Policy of Germany and Rus- 

 sification," which have been sharply and 

 warmly controverted by the ultra-national 

 journals. More important are " The Revenues 

 of Russia " (published also in French), by the 

 Academician Bezobrazof, a work of immense 

 labor, and very useful to the economist and 

 statesman; and the first volumes of "Princi- 

 ples of Political Economy," by Professor J. 

 JBabst. Mr. Babst has a clear and lively style, 

 and the art of making himself readily under- 

 stood. He treats the subject historically, and, 

 in views, is a protectionist, having become 

 converted from his former free-trade princi- 

 ples. Here should be mentioned " Die Indus- 

 trie Russlands," by F. Matthai, a very detailed 

 and systematic account of the development 

 and present condition of Russian manufactures. 

 The remarkable essays entitled "Ten Years 

 of Reforms," which have appeared during the 

 last two years in the Messenger of Europe, are 

 at last issued in complete form. They are by 

 A. Golovatcheff, and not by Grot, as I stated 

 last year. It is a book of the highest impor- 

 tance. The Hebrew question is giving rise to 

 a considerable literature, of which the chief 

 books are the "Hebrews in Russia," by Or- 

 shansky ; a new volume of the " Hebrew Li- 

 brary ; " a collection of the "Laws relating to 

 the Hebrews," containing many specimens of 

 curious and contradictory legislation ; and 

 Shershefsky's " Book of Kagal," a refutation 

 of Braphmann's well-known book. The Cen- 

 tral Statistical Committee has issued the second 

 series of the " Statistical Annual of the Rus- 

 sian Empire," full of late and new informa- 

 tion ; and " St. Petersburg," a collection of re- 

 searches into the history, topography, and sta- 

 tistics of the capital. " Statistical Researches 

 into the Sanitary Condition of St. Petersburg " 

 is an excellent little book, by Dr. Htibner, 

 with a sanitary map attached. Besides this 

 we have " Russian Toorkestan," which treats 

 of the geography and natural history as 

 well as the statistics of that remote prov- 

 ince. The "Calendar" of Suvorin is on a 

 new plan, and, as it contains the essence of 

 all information about Russia, must be on the 

 table of every one interested in that country. 



Besides numerous publications of historical 

 material, nearly all the best Russian historians 

 have given us something during the past year. 

 Solovief has issued the twelve lectures on 

 Peter the Great, which he delivered in con- 

 nection with the Moscow Polytechnic Exposi- 

 tion, as well as the twenty-second volume of 

 his "History of Russia," which covers that 



period of the reign of Elizabeth between 1745 

 and 1748. From Kostomarof we have, in ad- 

 dition to the essays mentioned above, another 

 article on the "Confused Period," and the 

 twelfth volume of his "Historical Mono- 

 graphs," containing essays which have ap- 

 peared before. In style and method Kosto- 

 marof is the exact opposite of Solovief. He is 

 an artist as well as an historian. The first 

 volume of Zabielin's " Essays on Russian An- 

 tiquities and History " contains a selection of 

 the labors of twenty years, and we must be 

 thankful that these valuable studies are res- 

 cued from the various periodicals in which 

 they were first printed, and are now made ac- 

 cessible. " The Conversion of the Uniates " is 

 published from the manuscripts of the late 

 Father Moroshkin, to which he had not put 

 the finishing touches. It is a painstaking and 

 conscientiously written work, which gives 

 the whole history of the so-called forced con- 

 version of the United Greeks of Lithuania 

 under the Emperor Nicholas, and a translation 

 of it would be very opportune at the present 

 moment. Mr. V. Klyutchevsky has put much 

 research and cleverness in " The Old Russian 

 Lives of the Saints as an Historical Source." 

 The chief independent work is the touching 

 memoir of the Crown-Princess Charlotte, the 

 unhappy wife of the unfortunate Alexis, by 

 Prof. Gerrye. "Russland unter Peter dem 

 Grossen," by Dr. Ernst Herrmann, published at 

 Leipsic, is a selection from the contemporary 

 memoirs of Vockerodt and Otto Pleyer. 

 Among the rich publications of historical ma- 

 terial, we must notice the two volumes of the 

 new collection, entitled " The Nineteenth 

 Century," by the indefatigable P. Bartinief ; 

 the fourth and fifth volumes of the " Archives 

 of Prince Vorontsofif," by the same editor; 

 the seventh volume of the " Collection of the 

 Imperial Historical Society," containing more 

 than 400 autograph letters and papers of 

 the Empress Catherine II., extending from 

 1744 to 1764, published by order of the 

 hereditary grand-duke ; four large volumes 

 published by the Moscow Historical Society ; 

 the " Historical Papers collected by K. Arse- 

 nief," published by the Academy of Sciences ; 

 " Materials from the Military Archives ; " and 

 a new publication of the Archseographical 

 Commission, called the "Russian Historical 

 Library," devoted exclusively to the " Period 

 of Confusion." All this is in addition to the 

 interesting volumes of the two historical jour- 

 nals, the Russian Archives and the Russian 

 Past. 



In memoirs and biography we have the 

 " Journal and Correspondence of Count Spe- 

 ranski," whose hundredth anniversary was on 

 the 1st of January, 1872 ; the " Memoirs of 

 Prince Shakofskoi," from 1705 to 1777 ; and 

 the highly-entertaining "Memoirs of a Gen- 

 darme," by General Lomatchefsky, which give 

 an inside view of the Polish disturbances be- 

 tween 1837 and 1843. The letters of Alexander 



