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IVAN yURGssIEPP.
Brilliant Career Of Rassia's Greatest
EoyeItst-The Foe Of DespUtIsfn.

Brilliant Career OF Rasaia's Greatest
HoyeIIst-Ihe Foe OF DespUtisin.
Ivan TurgenieH, the Russian novelist,
died at Bongival, France, on Monday 5th
inst, after q long illness: 80
Circulated In every language from me
Caspian 10 the Atlantic, and introduced De-
yond the Atlantic 10 years ago In the fa1s-
Ialions OF Mr.. Schuyler and others, the
Russian ThaCkersy is q familiar acqua!n'
lance with thousands to whom Pushkin,
Gogol, Karamzin, Lermontoh, and otnef
great chiefs OF Russian literature are wholly
unknown. Bot his career Is more than q
mere period in national literature; It is also
a momentous chapter Of national history.
Born in the same year as the late Gar,
1873, he spans the whole Of the vast space
between the Russia Of Alexander and that
OF Alexander Ill, between despotism
expanding into reform aud reform milling
back despairirgly into. the ways Of despott'
ism, A month after Turgenietf,s seventh
birthday, Alexander I.was succeeded by his
narrow and iron. hearted brother Nicholas,
who brooded over all Russia likes blight.
inc mist for 30 years 10 come. TurRenielt
himself did not escape the bllghting iniiu'
ence, Quitting his birthplace 1.-THE great
town Of Orel In Southern Russia while still
a yery Young man, be completed his studies
at Moscow, st. Petersburg and Berlin, and
was appointed in 1913 to clerkship III the
Ministry Of the Interior. But bis avowed
Liberal opinions. and the boldness with
which he expressed them, could not tail TO
displease o Government which was then
fast approaching that apogee Of tyranny
that ultimately brought down upon 1t the
tremendous chaBtisement OF the Crlmean
| war, and the ruler who had already made
bis name illustrious by hanging one OF
Russia's brightest poets and one OF her
most gifted composers Rylaief and PestaI)
added a new laurel to his Chaplet by
banishing the man who WIS hereafter
10 be her greatest writer OF fiction.
AHKART FOR TIE PEOPLE.
From his earliest youth TurgenteG had
shown decided taste Tor literature, and
| in the very year Of his entrance upon his
official life (1S43) he put iorth q volume oil
poems, which attracted considerable atten-
lion, although they failed to establish q
permanent reputation for their author
This distinction was reserved for his first
considerable prose work, "Iapiski Okhot-
nika," Notes OF a SportsmAn,) which APP
pesred in 1852. The sketches were merely
a record OF the authors own experiences
while shooting game on the steppes, asport
or which he was passionately fond; but all
Russia was electrified by his Photographic
truth OF detail, his amazingly thorough con-:
prehension OF the thoughts and feelings OF
peasantry, thesubtle and delicatehumorthat
lighted up the whole picture, the deep and
bitter earnestness that flashed through it
ever and anon. The reputation thus &c:
ouired was fully sustained bya series Of
brilliant novels. The whole Slav popula-
tion OF Eastern Europe echoed the stirring
expression given to their secret hopes by
"Nakanunye." ION the Eye,l a story Of
the outbreak OF the Russo-Turkish war in
1858. "Dyoryanskoe Gnyezdo." Nest
Of GsntlefOlka,) translated under the title
Of Liza" is the saddest and sweetest Of
al! Turgenietf's social tragedies, and darkly
suggests closer acquaintance than its au.
thor has ever acknowledged with the sor.
rows so powerfully depicted in 1t.