В.,А. W01ter, librarian of the

Slavonic. seetion of the Imperial Academy of

&ienee, undertook to prepare а handbook to

Ruuian” libraries. It тау be surprising to

leorn that ир to 10, Mr. Wolt,er,

reuived more or less incomplete replies to his.

civcutar from sik thousand libraries. There

are.indications that this fgure does not repre.

sent аи the libraries in Russia. Mr. Wolter

received по reply from and had little to дау

about а private library of eighty thousand

volumes belonging to Mr. О. V. Yudin, а Rus-

sian merchant located near krasnoiarsk, irv

Siberia. This collection is so remarkable, both

for it size and its quality, and is so little

knovn even in RlMa that а professional li-

brarian who had to spend а few days

втопд •its 'treasures feels justifed in brieRy

introducing it to the literary and the library

T)Fid.

Mr. Y0din, the owner of the libmry, was

born in• 1840, in the province of Tobolsk, and

spenb most. of his life in Siberia, in and near

krasT0iarsk, the capital of the province of

Eai*k, Не has traveled extensively ia

Rta—,; hBs visited at various times of hi8 life