DEDICATED
TO
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON
PREFACE
The chapters in this book on Tolstoy and Tourgeniev, and those on Chekov and Gogol have appeared before. That on Tolstoy and Tourgeniev in The Quarterly Review; those on Chekov and Gogol in The New Quarterly; my thanks are due to the Editors and Proprietors concerned for their kindness in allowing me to reprint these chapters here.
The chapter on Russian Characteristics appeared in St. George’s Magazine; the rest of the book is new. In writing it I consulted, besides many books and articles in the Russian language, the following:
The Works of Turgeniev. Translated by Constance Garnett. Fifteen vols. London: Heinemann, 1906.
The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy. Translated and edited by Leo Wiener. Twenty-four vols. London: Dent, 1904-5.
Le Roman Russe. By the Vicomte E. M. de Vogüé. Paris: Plon, 1897.
Tolstoy as Man and Artist: with an Essay on Dostoievski. By Dimitri Merejkowski. London: Constable, 1902.[1]
Ivan Turgeniev: la Vie et l’Œuvre. By Émile Haumant. Paris: Armand Colin, 1906.
The Life of Tolstoy. First Fifty Years. By Aylmer Maude. London: Constable, 1908.
A Literary History of Russia. By Prof. A. Brückner. Edited by Ellis H. Minns. Translated by H. Havelock. London and Leipsic: Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Realities and Ideals of Russian Literature. By Prince Kropotkin.
Russian Poetry and Progress. By Mrs. Newmarch. John Lane.
By far the best estimate of Tolstoy’s work I have come across in England in the last few years was a brilliant article published in the Literary Supplement of the Times, I think in 1907, which, it is to be hoped, will be republished.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This is an abridgment of a larger book by the author.