8 MARCH 1879, page 16

A Russian Novel.*

THERE is no better way, short of actual residence amongst them, of getting to understand a people than the study of their popular literature ; and this being the case, it is a......

Books.

MR. BLACK'S "GOLDSMITH." * " Way," said Dr. Johnson, "should the life of a literary man be less entertaining than the life of any other man ? Are there not interesting varieties......