The Ruler Or All Russia

As we are upon Eussian topics, says a Berlin letter to the Philadelphia Ledarer. it rnay be worth while to refer to the notice under the word czar I in the recently-completed seeond volume of "The ïvew English Dictionary," the monumental work of Dr. Murray and his associates. ''The spelling with Cz," it says, "is against the usage of all Slavonic languages. The word was so 'spelled by llerberstcin in Rerum Museo vit Commentarii. 1540, the chief early source of information as to llussia in western Europe, whence it passed into the western languages generalij-; in sonie of them it is now old fashioned. The Germán form is zar, and France has recently atlopted tsar, which is also the most suitable Eng-lish spellingf." Hut Isarevitch, sometimes used to desígnate the hereditary prince, is wrong. lie "has the differentiated title, cesarevitch, which is formed directly on the Latin Csesar, and not in any Slavonized form of the word." The Germans translate his Russian title very closely in calling' him the Grossfurst Thronfolger - literall}% the ''Grand-Prince-Tlirone-Successor."