GL1NKA, SERGY NIKOLAEVICH, an active and voluminous Russian author, the particulars of whose biography as given by Grech in his 'History of Russian Literature,' bear a striking resemblance to those of hie namesake, Gregory Gliuka. lie was born in the govern ment of Smolensk in 1774, entered the army in 1796, retired from it with the rank of major, gave up the whole of the family property to his sister as a dowry, and employed himself in the education of youth, first in the Ukraine and afterwards at Moscow. From 1808 to 1S20 he edited the 'Russian Messenger' (` Rusky Viestnik '), a magazine which contains valuable materials for Russian history. A collection of his works in twelve volumes was published at Moscow between 1817 and 1820. His compositions are almost all patriotic :—a poem, in ten cantos, is devoted to the celebration of the Tsnrinn Natalia, the mother of Peter the Great ; the tragedies and operas are on The Fall of Kazau,' ninth the Expeller of the Pelee," Suverov iu Italy,' &c. 'Russian Tales' and Russian Anecdotes' occupy the remaining volumes, with the single exception of a translation of Young's Night Thoughts.' This collection does not include a 'History of Russia for
the Ueo of Youth,' which was originally issued in ten volumes, and reprinted in fourteen. AHistory of the Migration of the Armeuinns of Azerbijan from Turkey to Russia,' was published by Glinke in 1831, and tranelated into German by Professor Neumann in 1834. The latest work we have seen bearing Glinka's name is Russkoe Chtenie,' 'llueeian Reading : Historical Memorials of the Country in the 18th and 19th Centuries,' 2 vols., St. Petersburg, 18-15. The contents are— original information on the hest days of Potemkin; the intercourse of llostopehin and Suvorov ; the public characters of the age of Catharine the Second, &c. ;—in fact, like many of Glinka's works, it is a collection of materials interesting in themselves, and which will be of value to the future historian. In the preface, which is dated from St. Peters burg in August 1545, the author speaks of his life as drawing to a close, but we have seen no mention of his death in the scanty sources of Russian literary biography.