Author:William Ralston Shedden Ralston

William Ralston Shedden Ralston
(1828–1889)

Works

Books

• Krilov and His Fables (1869) IA
• The Songs of the Russian People, as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life (1872) IA
• Russian Folk-Tales (1873) (start transcription)
  • republished as Russian Fairy Tales. A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore (1887) (start transcription)
• Early Russian History: Four Lectures (1874) IA

Articles in Littell's Living Age

• "Count Leo Tolstoy’s Novels" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• "Henri Greville's Sketches of Russian Life" in Littell's Living Age, 139 (1891)
• "Puss in Boots" in Littell's Living Age, 156 (2016)
• "Russian Idylls" in Littell's Living Age, 129 (1666)
• "Turkish Story-Books" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1713)
• Introduction to Portuguese Folk-Tales collected by Consiglieri Pedroso. Folk-Lore Society, 1882.

Translations

• Liza (1869; translation of Дворянское гнездо by Ivan Turgenev, also translated as A House of Gentlefolk) IA 1, IA 2
• Tibetan Tales: Derived from Indian Sources (1906; re-translated from German translation by F. Anton Schiefner) IA
• "Russian fables" Selection from Krilov in An argosy of fables, 1921.

Contributions to EB1911

• "Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hertzen, Alexander," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Ralston

• "Ralston, William Ralston Shedden-," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ralston, William Ralston Shedden-," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Shedden-Ralston, William Ralston," in Men-at-the-Bar (v. 2nd ed., p. 383), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)