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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
1 The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, vol. VI (Feb., 1949), p. 53.
2 According to the French edition, the authorship is as follows: vol. I by Professor S. Bakhrouchine, A. Ephimov, E. Kosminski, A. Narotchnitski, V. Serguiev, S. Skazkine, V. Khvostov, and E. Tarlé; vol. II by Professors V. Khvostov and I. Mintz; vol. III by Professors I. Mintz, A. Pankratova, V. Potiemkine, N. Koltchanovski, and E. Tarlé.
3 There are documents from as early as 1200 B.C., and as late as 1939. The bibliography for the most part, stops at 1942, although there is one item from 1945.
4 UP dispatch from Moscow, May 11, 1949.
5 Cf. C. E. Black in The American Slavic and Eastern European Review, Oct., 1948, pp. 276 ff., and B. Elkin in Slavonic and East European Review, April 1947, pp. 569 ff.
6 Posomby is Ponsonby; Niemann is Neumann (I, 418); Stockman is Stockmar (I, 426); Suard is Seward (I, 461); Gansemann is Hansemann; Lyard is Layard on one occasion (II, 47) and Lairds on another (I, 464); Hertzberger is Erzberger; Curr, Hankee and Nox (III, 73–74) are Kerr, Hankey and Knox; Heisler is Gessler (III, 103); Mawlton is Mouiton (III, 135); Gösch is Hoesch and Heinlein, Henlein and Colonel Swine (III, 769) is Swaine. Aehrenthal is transcribed as Ehrenthal (Honor Valley), which of course omits the family history behind the name Aehrenthal, which refers to the grain trade in which the family fortune was made.
7 Or Corti in Corthis (II, 54), Oubril in Oubry (II, 63), Cave in Kayves (II, 73), Currie in Kerry (II, 93), Beit in Beight (II, 132) and the British generals Poole and Dunsterville in Poul and Densterwill (II, 409 and 414) or Philip Lloyd Greame in Lloyd Grimm (III, 209). Mignier is the historian Mignet (I, 243), Thomas Penn is Paine (I, 338), Lisol (I, 171) is Lisola, Vikford is Wicqfort whose handbook The Ambassador did not appear in 1778 but in 1681 (I, 169). The Hohenlohe mentioned on II, 181, is actually a Hohenau, the Crewe on II, 195, a Crowe (Sir Eyre); the grand-duke mentioned on II, 241 and II, 268 is an archduke (Francis Ferdinand), the lord Runciman (III, 648) a viscount; Bismarck was not yet a count when ambassador to Russia (I, 473) and not an East Prussian (I, 481). The Dutchman Baltassar Hayala, author of De jure belli et officiis bellicis of 1582 (I, 167) is the Spaniard Ayala. The Hohenzollern in the beginning of the XVth century were not princes but simple counts (I, 251); Bernadotte was never Charles, but Jean Baptiste, as long as he was Bernadotte (I, 367).
8 Geyer, Curt, Drei Verderber Deutschlands, Berlin, Dietz, 1924.Google Scholar
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