distinguished from the others? And are not all these rules of
politeness bad, if they do not extend to all sorts of people? And
is not what we call politeness an illusion, and a very ugly
illusion?

LYOFF TOLSTOY.


Question: Which is the most "beastly plague," a cattle-plague
case for a farmer, or the ablative case for a school-boy?

LYOFF TOLSTOY.


Answers are requested to the following questions:

Why do Ustyusha, Masha, Alyona, Peter, etc.,
have to bake, boil, sweep, empty slops, wait at table, while the
gentry have only to eat, gobble, quarrel, make slops, and eat
again?

LYOFF TOLSTOY.

My Aunt Tanya, when she was in a bad temper because the
coffee-pot had been spilt or because she had been beaten at
croquet, was in the habit of sending every one to the devil. My
father wrote the following story, "Susoitchik," about it.


The devil, not the chief devil, but one of the rank and file,