"It ought to be one book, and not even a very thick one," she maintained.

But even if it were thick it would be clear, for the great point would be the plan and the character of the presentation of facts.

Of course not all would be collected and reprinted.

The decrees and acts of government, local regulations, laws--all such facts, however important, might be altogether omitted from the proposed publication.

They could leave out a great deal and confine themselves to a selection of events more or less characteristic of the moral life of the people, of the personal character of the Russian people at the present moment.