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The New English-Russian and Russian-English Dictionary (Nen, Orthography), by M.

A. O'Brien (George Allen and

7s. 6d.), published also by Tauchnitz, and similar in size to the ordinary Tauchnitz edition, in a red cloth binding, are the best small Russian dictionaries that we have seen. Professor O'Brien of Queen's University, Belfast, deserves warni congratulations on the success which has attended his efforts. A feature of the new dictionary is that in the Russian- English section an admirable grammatical key has been pro- vided in the beginning and that by means of an ingenious system of letters and numerals many of the difficulties in the declen- sion of the Russian noun and in the conjugation of the Russian verb have been lessened. We strongly recommend this dictionary to all students of Russian.