14 JULY 1923, Page 21

The Slavonic Review.

The School of Slavonic Studies at King's College has done well to produce and maintain this very able quarterly, which is revealing the Slav peoples as they really arc to English readers. Professor Mirsky's essay on Pushkin is excellent, and not least because he understands why Englishmen in particular are inclined to think the Russian poet rather second-rate and imitative. Professor D,yboski, of Cracow, writes well on "The Peasant in Modern Poland." The truth about the wretched condition of the Russian universities under the Bolsheviks is stated in plain terms ; Lunacharski's boasted " reforms " exist only on paper. No serious student of Slavonic life and literature can afford to • neglect this periodical.