title: The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
author: Charles A. Moser
description: "...the Cambridge history offers some important insights." Vasily Rudich, New Criterion<br /><br />"...offers a solid introduction to its subject matter." Choice<br /><br />"...an immensely useful book." The Times Higher Education Supplement<br /><br />"Professor Moser has had no easy task, and the overall result is a testimony to his very considerable skills as an editor. He facilitates the transition from one period to the next by furnishing at the beginning of each chapter a brief thumbnail sketch of the new period. In themselves these sketches are models of judiciousness. Read in sequence, they provide a fine condensed history of the entire literature....this volume will clearly become an important tool for both teachers and students of the Russian literary tradition." J. Douglas Clayton, Canadian Slavonic Papers
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  The Russian mote and the British beam v. 14.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 
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  The Russian mote 
  and the British beam 
  
  DOWN TO EARTH SERIES 
  BLAVATSKY ON THE MOTE AND THE BEAM 
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  First published in Lucifer, Vol. VI, No. 36, August 1890, pp. 470-78. 
  Republished in Blavatsky Collected Writings, (THE MOTE AND THE BEAM) XII pp. 279-91. 
  Judge not, that ye be not judged. 
  Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel . . . 
  — Matthew xxiii, 24 
  Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, 
  But considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 
  — Matthew vii, 3 
  Oh the virtuous indignation, the roaring tempest raised in the tender souls of Ameri-
  can and British philanthropists at the rumour that Russian authorities in Siberia are 
  not as tender as they should be towards their political prisoners! What a hullabaloo 
  o