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Free Russia.*

IN Mr. Hepworth Dixon, Russia has found another De Custine. Like that brilliant author, he gallops through the country, and then considers himself entitled to sit down and......

Lives Of The Founders Of The British Museum.* In These

two volumes Mr. Edwards has recounted the complete history of the British Museum and its collections, with biographies of the chief among the collectors who gathered and the......