D USSIA bas not the reputation of а wun-

try abounding in libraries. The reasons

for this are twofold. In the frst place, libra-

ries are not plentiful in Russia. With the

exceptions of the rich Imperial Public Library

of St. Petersburg, the Library of the Imperial

Academy of Science in the вате city, the

Rumiantsev and the Historical Museums in

Moscow, and the libraries of Russian higher

institutions of learning, there are compara-

tively few large libraries of which Russia сап

boast. The second reason is that most of the

private libraries of апу importance belong to

the nobility and are not accessible to the

public. Much is said of the library of Mr.

А. S. Suvorin, the editor of the Novoe Vremia,

but even Russian bibliographers ате in the

dark as to its contents. А number of private

libraries are.said to exist outside of the two

Russian capitals, but hearsay is the оп1у

source of this information. Two or three

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