journal gave an illustrated account of the Yale representation.

One must never forget in reading Gogol that he was a man of the
South--"homme du Midi." In all countries of the world, there is a
marked difference between the Northern and the Southern temperament.
The southern sun seems to make human nature more mellow. Southerners
are more warm-hearted, more emotional, more hospitable, and much more
free in the expression of their feelings. In the United States, every
one knows the contrast between the New Englander and the man from the
Gulf; in Europe, the difference between the Norman and the Gascon has
always been apparent--how clear it is in the works of Flaubert and of
Rostand! Likewise how interesting is the comparison between the
Prussian and the Bavarian; we may have a wholesome respect for Berlin,
but we love Munich, in some respects the most attractive town on
earth. The parallel holds good in Russia, where the Little Russians,
the men of the Ukraine, have ever shown characteristics that separate
them from the people of the North. The fiery passion, the boundless
aspiration of the Cossack, animates the stories of Gogol with a
veritable flame.

His first book, "Evenings on a Farm near the Dikanka (Veillees de
l'Ukraine)," appeared early in the thirties, and, with all its crudity
and excrescences, was a literary sunrise. It attracted immediate and
wide-spread attention, and the wits of Petersburg knew that Russia had
an original novelist. The work is a collection of short stories or
sketches, introduced with a rollicking humorous preface, in which the
author announces himself as Rudii Panko, raiser of bees. Into this
book the exile in the city of the North poured out all his love for
the country and the village customs of his own Little Russia. He gives
us great pictures of Nature, and little pictures of social life. He