His voluminous history, in classic beauty, is unsurpassed by any of the annals of Greece or Rome.

It has been admirably translated into French by Messrs.

St.Thomas and Jauffret in eleven imperial quarto volumes.

In the critical citations of this author, the reader, curious in such researches, will find every fact in the early history of Russia, here stated, confirmed.
There are but few valuable works upon Russia in the English language.
Nearly all, which can be relied upon as authorities, are written either in French or German.

The writer would refer those who seek a more minute acquaintance with this empire, now rising so rapidly in importance, first of all to Karamsin.