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Catherine The Geeat.

THE author of a work on Russian history—a large part of which must have been written before the present war--4s necessarily at a disadvantage. English ideas about Russia are......

The Loeb Classical Library.*

"THE Loeb Classical Library," of which nearly sixty volumes have now been published, was designed by the wealthy and public.spirited American whose name it bears for the purpose......

Robert Spence Watson.*

Mit. CORDER prefers to arrange his Life of Robert Spence Watson " under topics " rather than chronologically. This is a point on which the author is commouly the beat judge. But......