New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-09
THE AUTHOR OF "BURIED ALIVE"
n,om 80 Snlurdar Rerll1e.

PS,om The saturday, Repic1o.
In the year 1519 young Russian literary man
was condemned 10 be hanged. Ills crime consisted
In his having taken part 10 what was styled ! no
Petra hcvsky affair THAT IS % say, ne had neeh
efnb Der OF one of the secret societies 10 when Inc
Goynrn,nent 81 strongly objected. His sentence was
cominuted. but ho was sent 70 SIBERIA, cohnclled
10 long period OF hara labor in prison. 10 be lo-
lowed by service IN the ranks OF the army On loot
and in chains he made the CTeary journey 20 ms
far-Oi prison-hOuse and there endured the ni*ercs
OF penal servitude during four years his same man
has recently been carried to his grave ia the Alex
auder Ncvsky Cemetery at 81. Petersburg, escorted
bv deputatOns from the Universities and other
leasned institutions and followed by crowns OF
mourners who represented al that - most cultured
in Russia. And the Emperor who now rules That
land has conferred pension of = 900 roubes on the
widow and children Of the man whom ms ptedcoes-
sor kept during four years IN chains IN Siberia.
When Fedor DOstOeysAy, the convict IN question,
was allowed 10 return home III 1850, De renewed
his long interrupted literary pursuits lie had a.
ways warmly sympatm1ed with az who were needy
and oppressed and his years OF PRISON lie had only
sfrengthened the intnences which drew hun toward
them As successful novelist, ne attained "a posi-
ti,n which enabled him 20 plead with effect the
cause of the d" Poor People aud the Illuminated
aud Outraged after whom he hamed Two oi his
Syork and 10 give expression to the generous indg
nation which stirs the hearts Of each Youthful gem
grafton In Russia and which has az late years de-
vei0pcd into 10 dangerous IRE or revolutionary
v,roH, Having been forced 10 associate for years
with criminals lie studied with special interest the
maths along which men 0dyance toward crime, tho
motives which urge them 20 become law-Dreakeis,
H. rssonir,g. nv n hich those among them who nfe
Qivet 10 speculation still the voice OF conscience.
Ihe most remarkable PASSAGES IN he best OF his
novels aCrimc aud Punishment" arc those IN
which be traces the first manifestations oil the
moral otliquity % vision which induces Russian
spe linen Of the Eugene Aram family 10 regard na a
quite excusable, If not pfaiseworthy, action me
murder Of a disreputable old woman. but ny
ordinary readers that elaborate psychological TO
NANCE will be found less interesting than The
simpler sketches OF prison life, founded upon hi-
own experiences which he published few years
after his return. from Siberia under the tlte OF
= Notes from the Dead House." and Of which an
English translation u now before Us. They naiu'
rally created great sensation in Russia ~ the time
when they rst appeared and they are SUI eeteefned
there faithful records of what conyltt BE used 20
be before the reforms Introduced which have
considerably modified its conditions for although
IL Is impossible say how much OF the work Is fact
aud how much 6etion. stiD the general idea which
il e0ngeys IL likely 70 be tolerably correct.