that Holden's final words reflect, in a twentieth-century way, Alesha's plea for reconciliation and his admonition to the boys that they never forget one another. Holden says, "... I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlatter and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." The foregoing, I believe, obliges one to suppose that The Brothers Karamazov is the most likely source of Dostoevsky's influence on The Catcher in the Rye. NOTES Lillian R. Furst, "Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature , 5 (1978), 72-85. I know of no other article on Salinger and Dostoevsky besides those of Gerigk and Furst. Probably there are a number of brief references to Salinger in relation to Dostoevsky, but I am able to cite only one - in H. R. Grunwald's "Introduction" to the book edited by him, Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait New York: Cardinal, 1963; also Harper, 1962). One section of this introduction is titled "Beatnik Peter Pan vs. Ivan Karamazov" (xiv-xvii). It sees the rebellion of Holden, Huck Finn and Ivan as essentially similar. There is no suggestion of an actual influence of Dostoevsky on Salinger. As for direct evidence of Salinger having read Dostoevsky, a note by William Maxwell in The Book-of-the-Month Club News (July 1951), 6, quotes Salinger as saying that he loves Kafka, Flaubert, Tolstoy,