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Across Russia. By Charles Augustus Stoddard. (chapman And...

is an American traveller, and looks upon Russian things from the American standpoint, one which, for some reason not easy to explain, means a certain sympathy. Across Russia......

The History Of Human Marriage.* "marriage," Writes The...

of this interesting book, "is rooted in family rather than family in marriage." It would perhaps have been more accurate to say that— marriage being regarded from the point of......

Current Literature.

Geodesy. By J. Howard Gore. (W. Heinemann.)—This is one of " Heinemann's Scientific Handbooks," and the most interesting of the series. Geodesy must be added to the long list of......