Landmarks in Russian literature

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 Characteri...