l.ITKRATDRE, CONTINI-NTAL. IN 18W. 



tanr Question." The Franco- Russian 



(Spillage* de U SocieU modt r 

 reduces to fijrurea the time and money l<*t t 

 militarism, hun-u tic ratio red Upc, lawsuits, tariffs, 



Ivanof has ma-i 

 oernin^ 

 atrr in Connection u a! Kijrht- 



' 



Moscow assiduously pursues the study of it* s| > 

 ;-..- i.-. r', -i n i. . .! Q| uid M If ralton is 



.IMI" tii tlit- Demands of t! 



r . , h ,- , i th, Intellectual Classca with 

 Reference to Education nn<l ( 'ultiire " (second editi. m , 

 a^Rttbakin'a" Study of the Russian Reading I 1 ..). 

 lie,* 1 and finds expression in the activit y .,j the - < <>.,,- 

 iucation " of Moscow and St. Petersburg 

 and Uie Moaoow Commiaakm for i ! ...). ..f 



Home Reading, whoac traveling lecturer an- turtlu r 

 Ing Uie cauae of D Tin- iii.|H, r - 



tance of tin* movement is poinftad out by a Russian 



who states tersely that misrule ami ic' 

 " srv the principal plaguca of contemporary Russia." 

 connoction we note the increase in ponular 

 scientific works, many of them translati \ & 



Baakin. in tt Russian Composers," deals wit); 1 I 

 TohaikovakL In literary hist -t important 



publicationa are VengeroPa u Russian Poetry " 

 of poet* of the eighteenth and early nineteenth n- 

 tunes); I. ZhdanoPa "The Ruiwian 11 

 the work of an authority mi juu-it-nt Bmlajn liu-ni- 

 tuir ; and V. OolUcfs " Li; hea." 



Wo especially important work of fiction has seen 



the lijfht. D. Mamin-Sihirink dc*criba life in the 



Ural territory in "Sibirian Tal*," gives a pyiupa 



and humorous picture f litmirv Bohemuuv 



iwn in -urL' in " ^ 



Pepko,* 1 and unfolds* 4 an entire epoH of l<xal lit'c at 

 the time of the economic revolution" following the 

 emancipation of the peasantry in P,n a.l." Holiorni- 

 kin. tlmuirh always showing" litt-rary skill, is, we are 

 l/.l.l. more auooeanful when ! 



ii].on 



momentary social fad as a subj.-.-t r.-r his novels than 

 when he in compelled to draw upon liis imacioAtion. 

 Thus he haa had alternately suc-cc** and failure with 



Wane," " Basil T-rk njr the Top," 



and **The Pleader." (;arin continues his "Child- 

 hood of Tema" and u Gvmnasiast" in a truthful 

 f the life of "The Students"; Count Loo 

 TotaniVi u Master and Workman" met wit: 

 meeeaw; Sunyukovich has writ* Naval 



Stories"; KorolenkoV vi-a* to Kntrlnn<l an<l America 

 have inspired U A Free Kiirht in the House" i. e., 



tue of Commons and " Without a T< 

 (rrlatintr a touching experience of some Russian emi- 

 grants in New York): and Mine. Lukhmanof, a new 

 writer, has published * recollections of her 

 day* and a picture of Siberian life." It was n j-*.rt <1 

 thst < t play u The Mi-ht of 



Darknc**," hitherto prohibited by the censor, had 

 been performed with immense success. 



Spain- Historical works are, as ever, plentiful ; and 

 if, a* one American critic has written, * the new Kfiirit 

 in htstorinfrraphy is hut slowly penetrating th 

 lectaal irlooov*yc-t rittoi h"i> -fully see im- 



provement. Spanicli hixtoriam> arc industrious, and 

 Rafael A Itaniira, author of - La Ensefiania dc 



it,/ inu-h to prepare the way for new 

 methods. Of the voluminous " Hitoria geaml <lc 

 ftjrtii, eaeribi per Indi vi<luo la Real 



i-inia <!< ] a HiMoria bajo la I' 

 .anovasdel Castillo." ('ual. 1-829 have fn-en : 

 * ohe newert v !il/ 



l^Manns nafta: .- 



; : - ria," r. ached 

 :. i v issued 

 Many contributions to local 

 sppean-tl. ti 

 searrh. amnnt' u<-h h<-inif 1 



de In I'mvincia de 8e- 

 - - Yarimimto, prehist/.ricos de la 

 dcSerilla-; E. J. dc Labayru y Goicoe- 



chca's .-eneral !! Sen.rn> .. 



.'H M Mallorca en 1612 \ i< la TuM 



nijmii... Mvarez de la 



\ A-: Tarragona antiirua y HUM;, 



' A]'!,! -'u-oa sobrc In Villa <1> 



ami M Rebellion de M i-|.:.V 



Much attention is also iail to Sjiani.-h Ai 



. to the study of whi.-li th- < 'olumbus q 



i-d im|>-tu-. \'<>1. XIII ,,f 

 ' 



c.-l'anola en Amni.'a" and \'"1 XI 



colled 



have appeared ; J. <'or<>leu (lied \\hni 



liid |-cinl< iiria " hud I" 

 Medina ha.- ~<>ulirimiento d< 



\" ../ ' ..-. n |J n la K' '.i n ha-ta ::' ':i ii.i'-.iiia do 



<ul.an athiirs i 

 numerous pamphi< 

 jH.liticM and the ijuestion -.) h'-inc ml- . 



'.uerra !< Ciil.a." l.\ ! 

 Philippine Islands form the topi< 



:ia general de las Islas Fill) 

 Kilipinas" ; " IViMi"'' 

 Filipina"i Vol. IV . ; K. Con 

 ]>inas; 1*1' icngtt 



.arias." by A. Millan-s. 

 Vol. X. The diplomatist K. Dujaiy . 



lios sobrc el .lap . 'fruit of 



dire iii Yokohama, and exj-lains why Spanish inW 

 ctK-i- in th. } 



" ma^'ic of style, ]ro1'undity of th,u-lt" In the 

 division p-otrraphy \\,- h.-i\ ( 



trrati.-a." a series of 1< in the 



"'ampos'i* ' ! 



and Soriano y Kodriiro'.s " Mons \ 

 of a journey to Mel ilia. The tast Io f4 



studies rapean to have jrrcatlv ii 



in the inililieation of ne\v workj on tl 



tinuities of Sj.ain, amoiiL' wh 



" Prehistoria % Tradi<-i 



nulcros prehistoric-OS de ("irinpo/i.i 

 Ali-dinu's " KMlldios .obre 1: 



eiu"; u Viaje 4 Asturias pajHUMO 







p--r < antal>ria." 



bull fijrhtint: have upfi-ured. iiu-ludinj; on 

 dela. u self-styled ad<p: .^ujnia" 



<le! ' 



1 .ii jira'iscd. An important bibliographical 



the catalogue of the library of the coll. 



ia F roii tern. The voluminou>. lit. -niti.rc 



Sainz del Bur^oV learned " 



Cervantes vindicado d< ! 



ai 



la Litenttom eapai 



ne< in- 



cludint' Joae Maria I', n da' 

 Valera's ' La hi, lv<-da\i 



w Cuentos n ; Allan . ***U 



- vulirares." hy .luan (Juill. ! a ypaj 



writ<-r of p; i the proli: 



" Topjuemada v San 1'. dp. " and 

 Puriratorio." Father Coloma. 

 a stir with " Retrutoh 



' l'e<|i;. fainsl the vires attnl'Ul' 



p r -l;^*es. and dcalini: with In- 

 Further pnse tirtion iiK-lud<- .1. K. M 

 .luan <i 

 tin HePK- del Sitrlo XIII." a histoi, 



,1 Vullc \ ' Villa 



Ifuerta; and M. Hernandez Villa. 

 vano." ' I'- try. hoth lyrical and dr.-. 

 arc told, "visibly on the wane," althou 

 numerous younjr versifiers "still 

 the semiclnssical school of ' '*"^l 



ValdeH, and Quintann . . . , or t 

 Espronccda and Zorilla," and Mcnendcz y Pelayo 



