English writer and lecturer on Russian subjects, born in 1828, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1850. In 1853 he was appointed assistant librarian in the British Museum, and continued there until 1875. His publications include Kriloff and His Fables (1869); Songs of the Russian People (1872); Russian Folk Tales (1873); Early History of Russia (1874). He died on the 7th of August 1889. (See authored articles: Nikolai Gogol, Alexandr Ivanovich Hertzen, Mikhail Lermontov.)
