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 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

While this book was being prepared for print a work of great value for all the English-speaking lovers of Russian literature appeared in America. I mean the Anthology of Russian Literature from the earliest Period to the present Time, by Leo Wiener, assistant professor of Slavic languages at Harvard University, published in two stately volumes by Messrs. Putnam's Sons at New York. The first volume (400 pages) contains a rich selection from the earliest documents of Russian literature — the annals, the epic songs, the lyric folk-songs, etc., as also from the writers of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. It contains, moreover, a general short sketch of the literature of the period and a mention is made of all the English translations from the early Russian literature. The second volume (500 pages) contains ab- stracts, with short Introductory notes and a full bibliography, from all the chief authors of the nineteenth century, begin- ning with Karamzin and ending with Tchehoff, Gorkiy, and Merezhkovskiy. All this has been done with full knowledge of Russian literature and of every author; the choice of char- acteristic abstracts hardly could be better, and the many translations which Mr. Wiener himself has made are very good. In this volume, too, all the English translations of Russian authors are mentioned, and we must hope that their number will now rapidly increase. Very many of the Russian authors have hardly been translated at all, and in such cases there is nothing else left but to advise the reader to peruse French or German translations. Both are much more nu- merous than the English, a considerable number of the German translations being embodied in the cheap editions of Reklam.

A work concerning Malo-Russlan (Little-Russian) litera- ture, on lines similar to those followed by Mr. Wiener, has appeared lately under the title, ''Vik; the Century, a Col- lection of Malo-Russian Poetry and Prose published from 1798 to 1898'', 3 vols. (Kiev, Peter Barski) ; (analysed in Athenæum, January 10, 1903.)

Of general works which may be helpful to the student of Russian literature I shall name Ralston's ''Early Russian