Vienna, Paris, Switnrland, Italy, Palestine,

and Egypt. In aft.er а fre which de-

Btroyed а large portion of krasnoiarsk, Mr,

Yudin moved to Tarakanovo, а suburb of that

city, and оп the elevated bank of the Enisei

built his present which commands

а picturesque view of the swift, broad river

and of the mountains beyond. As а youth,

Mr. Yudin became interest.ed in science and

developed а love for books. In this he was

encouraged by his father, а тап remarkable

for his self-acquired attainments in mathe-

matics, and in Tarakanovo, at а safe distance

from krasnoiarsk, with its fres, the younger

Mr. Yudin began Во build his collection of

books. Не had тапу diTculties with which

to contend, the chief of them being the dis-

tance from book markets: krasnoiarsk is

over three thousand miles from St. Peters-

burg. But the tBlegraph, even before the

days of the Siberian railway, helped to battle

with the distance, and agents in St. Petersburg

and Moscow did what was in their power

help the enthusiastic and generous collector in

his task. Now, at the end of twenty-three

years of book-buying, пе fnd Mr. Yudin in

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