4 JULY 1874, page 23

Mr. Ralston On Russian History.*

WE do not know that Mr. Ralston was quite wise in publishing these lectures. They are intended, he says, only as a snack to whet the appetite for Russian history ; but a snack,......

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Specimens of Composition. By Charles Nests. (James Parker.)— Mr. Neste gives us in his preface a very brief hint of what we may conjecture to be a theory on the teaching of......