The ruin inflicted by these wild hordes has never been repaired. During the captainship of Genghis Khan, an approximately correct estimate shows that eighteen million five hundred thousand human beings were slaughtered by his horsemen in China and Tangut alone. Turkestan, once called the Garden of the East, and Great Bokhara, after the lapse of six centuries, bear the evidences of the Tatar invasion on their many depopulated wastes. Upon the occupation of Nessa, a town in Kiva, the people were bound together in couples, and above seventy thousand were despatched thus by the Tatar arrows. At Merv, seven hundred thousand, or, according to another authority, one million three hundred thousand corpses were left to corrupt the atmosphere once teeming with life, and rich in its bountiful fruitfulness. At Nishapoor, in Persia, seven hundred and forty-seven thousand lives were extinguished. To prevent the living from hiding under the piles of the dead, the bodies were decapitated. At Herat, in Afghanistan, one million six hundred thousand were mowed down by the Tatar cimetars. After the enemy had vanished, forty persons, the mournful remnant from the massacre, came together in the principal mosque of the ruined city. These regions have never recovered a tithe of their former prosperity. [To be continued.] PRONOUNCING LIST OF RUSSIAN PROPER NAMES. _Explanation of signs used_: _a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, _u_, long, as in _fate_, _mete_, _mite_, _mote_, _mute_. _a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, short, as in _add_, _met_, _if_, _off_. _ö_ like the prolonged sound of _e_ in _her_. _ä_, the Italian _a_, as in _arm_. _ï_, the Italian _i_, like _e_. _o_, in the syllables of most Russian words, has a sound between _o_ and _o_. For typographical reasons, however, we give simply the _o_, advising that the vowel sound be not made too long. _u_, in most Russian syllables, has a liquid sound like _yu_. Consonants, when succeeding one another, unite their sounds rapidly. Thus, in _Svi-at´o-slaf_, the sounds of _s_ and _v_ follow one another much as _s_ and _t_ unite in the English word _step_.