tell whether thiB valuable contribution to

bibliographical literature will ever be fully

appreciated and completed by those wbo have

every facility for carrying out Mr, Yudin'B

plan.

”The Russian books ” iB not tbe only риЬ.

lication of Mr. Yudin. Russian historical

literature is indebted to him for several vol-

итев of sources of national history. But,

putting aside his publishing activity, however

creditable it is in all its aspects, опе cannot

suTciently admire his chief creation—the li-

brary which occupies а place of honor атопд

the collections of the world, not alone

for its great size, but also оп aw)unt 0f the

rare of the material it oontains.

Far away from civilization, prompted by а

pure love for books, quietly and unassumingly

this Russian merchant has devoted а goodly

portion of his comfortable, but by по теапв

extraordinary income to а work which in

every land goes with high culture and refne.

ment. 0f the results of his bibliographical

labors Mr. Yudin сап be justly proud, and his

country, more and more alive t.o culture, сап

take а just pride in him.