It is not often that statesmanship, military skill, and earnest piety are found united in the person of a monarch. Yet such was the case with VLADIMIR MONOMACHUS, Grand Prince of Kyjev, a contemporary of our own Norman kings, William Rufus and Henry I. Henry I. of England is indeed said to have possessed a degree of refinement and learning which in that unlettered age spread his renown over Europe, and earned him the honourable surname of “Beauclerc.” But Vladimir, the Russian, has left written remains behind him which many a nation might well envy, and which few, very few, royal pens, always excepting the sweet singer of Israel and his wise successor, have surpassed or even emulated.