THE MODERN RUSSIAN LIBRARY 



This Series of Translations from the best modern 

 Russian Writers will comprise volumes of Stories, 

 Novels and Essays. The first two volumes are now 

 ready, and others will follow rapidly. Each volume 

 Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt, 3/6 net. 



I. With a Diploma. By V. I. NEMIROVITCH- 

 DANTCHENKO. Translated from the Russian by 

 W. J. STANTON PYPER. 



In this volume by the well-known Russian author, 

 whose work is so highly appreciated in his own country, 

 we are brought face to face with the two opposite poles of 

 Russian society, the peasant in his obscure village, 

 hidden away somewhere in the vast expanse, vaguely 

 termed the " provinces," and the fashionable world of 

 Petrograd and Moscow, full of restless thought and eager 

 for every new idea from the outside world. The tragedy 

 of love between two beings of unequally matched tempera- 

 ments, intensified by social inequality, is brought before 

 us in a series of poignantly vivid incidents which build 

 up day by day the life histories of a woman and a man 

 a woman whose essential nobility of character is revealed 

 to its full under the direst stress of circumstances, while 

 the character of the man stripped of the veil of pseudo- 

 romanticism lies before us in all its essential meanness. 



One of the finest qualities of the author's writing is hie 

 power of making his personages reveal their personalities 

 as it were, unknown to themselves, out of their own 

 mouths are they convicted, and the simplicity and direct- 

 ness of the style is one of the secrets of the author's charm. 



II. The Bet and other Stories. By ANTON 

 TcHEKOV. Translated by J. MlDDLETON MuRRY 

 and S. S. KOTELIANSKY. 



III. The Blind Musician. By VLADIMIR 



KOROLENKO. 



IV. A Book of Stories. By ALEXANDER 



KUPRIN. 



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