musical language. The poet Lermontov alone wrote as splendid a prose
as Turgenev. A good deal of its charm is unavoidably lost in
translation. But I am happy to say that the present one is as near an
approach to the elegance and poetry of the original as I have ever
come across.


S. STEPNIAK.

BEDFORD PARK, April 20, 1894.




THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK

DMITRI NIKOLA'ITCH RU'DIN.

DAR-YA MIHA'ILOVNA LASU'NSKY.

NATA'L-YA ALEX-YE'VNA.

MIHA'ILO MIHA'ILITCH LE'ZH-NYOV (MISHA).

ALEXANDRA PA'VLOVNA LI'PIN (SASHA).

SERGEI (pron, Sergay) PA'VLITCH VOLI'NT-SEV (SEREZHA).

KONSTANTIN DIOMIDITCH PANDALE'VSKY.