16 JANUARY 1875, page 21

The Land Of The Czar.*

THE first thing one learns from Mr. Wahl's book is how very little one knows about Russia. A popular notion of the big empire whose extent comprises one-sixth of the whole earth......

Mrs. Parr's Shorter Tales.*

MRS. PARR has a soft and delicate touch which gives even to the slightest of these stories,—and some of them, " Sylvia," for • The Gosau Smithy, and other Stories. By Mrs. Parr,......