eter
the Great.

H.P. KENNARD. _The Russian Year-Book._ Eyre and Spottiswoode. 10s. 6d. net.

Excellent for facts and figures.

E. SEMENOFF. _The Russian Government and the Massacres._ 1907. 2s. 6d. net.

An account of the _pogroms_ in Russia from the Jewish point of view.

J.R. FISHER. _Finland and the Tsars, 1800-1899._ 1899. 12s. 6d.

The best account in English of the history of Finland's relations with
Russia up to the beginning of the reactionary period.

K.P. POBIEDONOSTSEV. _Reflections of a Russian Statesman._ 1898. 6s. For
Slavophilism.

P. KHOPOTKIN. _Memoirs of a Revolutionist._ 1907. 6s.

MAURICE BARING. _Russian Literature._ (Home University Library.) 1s.

A. BRUeCKNER. _A Literary History of Russia._ 1908. 12s. 6d. net.

MAURICE BARING. _Landmarks in Russian Literature._ 1910. 6s. net.

The last-named are the best available books in English on Russian
literature. The works of the great Russian novelists are now accessible to
English readers. Nothing helps one to understand Russia so well as reading
the works of Tourgeniev, Tolstoi, and Dostoieffsky. The best translations
are those of Mrs. Garnett. The following are recommended to those who are
beginning the study of Russian literature and who are desirous of reading
novels which throw light on the springs of Russian life and thought:--

TOURGENIEV. _Fathers and Children._ Heinemann. 2s. net.

A study of Russian Nihilism in the 'eighties, which may be read and
compared with Kropotkin's _Memoirs_.

TOLSTOI. _War and Peace._ Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net. _Anna Karenin._
Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net.

The first of these is perhaps the finest treatment of war in modern
literature, the subject being the Russian campaign of Napoleon in 1812. No
other book gives one a better idea of the way the Russians make war and of
the essential greatness of the Russian national spirit.

DOSTOIEFFSKY. _The Brothers Karamazov._ Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net.

This, which is one of the greatest novels ever written, depicts, at once
relentlessly and with infinite tenderness, the spiritual conflict which has
agitated Russian society for at least fifty years past.

JOSEPH CONRAD. _Under Western Eyes._ 6s.

A powerful study of modern revolutionary types. Conrad, of course, is not a
Russian novelist, but he is of Polish origin.

GOGOL. _The Inspector-General._ Walter Scott. 1s. net.

A comedy first produced in Petrograd in 1836. Gogol is one of Russia's
classics. This play is