The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6)

book is imbued with the Chekhovian _leit-motif_--the longing,

struggling, crippled Russian soul.

Leonid Andreyev is of a dual personality: the artist, and the mouthpiece of society. In his early sketches, in his short stories, and in his greatest achievement, _The Seven Who Were Hanged_, he is the wonderful psychologist, the unveiler of the soul mysteries with an art that appr...