The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-04

dor that can make the poet EdiculouS. There
sSs sps y hsss
| yindicate himself, as who should say, Here
As q Is jslf sGafs ssd POOR ts
| Poll. and is made butt Of. The same peopie
s fs%ghI st ne James Boswell ESQ; Il %Saqp0t
Tale. q TIRE. o..,-rr.... , !.
Russia, stretching from, transtendentAl Cor
neny to celestial China, from the land Of Kant
to the land 81 Confucius. with It's northern
capes. buried in the eternal fee Of the Arctic
Ocean. and its southern limits overlookihr the
land OF Ffrdusf. in1presses our fmaginations. II
merely BY It's immensity. and its mystery. We
welcome all meAns for; arriving at some more
definite Ideas cohcernih9 this huge empire
which year by year looms np moro and more
threateninsly before tho other nations oS
Europe, tits only within, very short time thaS
We have been able to read translations Of Rus
sian novels and stories. and learn somethttts
Of the life and manners Of the people
and eth more recent have been me
travels Of Americans snd tra.slAtions d..
rectly \ from the Russian into English,
Amoht the most Interesting Of these books 10
one containing tranSlatibp by Mr.. JERcanAR
C6kTIf Of several Of the stories Of MiohaSl
Za&oskin. and published under the title al
7bles'a Of Three Csnhhies Little: Brown b Co,
Bostonh Mr. Curtin has 50 Well translated
the book That It has all the flavor Of an orisi.
nal work. Whsh We remember the French
and German and RussiaiS 40 plentifully scat.
tered through Tolstoi's war and Peaue "twcc
remember one word; was vuisokoprevssk.
hodityeia voi, We arc very thankful to Mr.
Curtin for giving ds The favor Of Russian life
and sprroundinss IA 8 purely English ssrh
Every here and tAera ND hotice picturesque
epitha. as -hofasssiea.h speed" and white.
walled mothef MELLOW f2 n,! .'i''
Mr.. Curtin's fntroAuptlon Il as Interesting -
the stories. The Aeseription Of his ride Of 500
miles! from the fpn, iht6 northern Russia,
without rest By night Or day Is itself story.
We sec hims 6vefeoms " sleeh s@ayins and
the psretl.ans ss w sdsoos
sprinssl the thseethckA ~ esping at topmost
speed: now sk6p d bAhishs through the
dark streets Of some llttle Russian hamlet.
again forth 'int6 cay Vide pisias. leaving all
pursuit far hehiad. stIs ID thus jolts along
through the rain And SNOW. strange mlrages
Of great cities and fortresses float before the
feverish eyes Of the traveller. " "
The book contains three stories. entitled
respectively re- might N q the Hopyob"- The
t t1so is ae osss kssBts s Sssf
in the lateautumn 81 1865 IN TIE sinalf town of
,serdobskI on the river H9pyor. In southern
Russia. About twenty versts from thetvillaRe
lives Russian tnobletnah. Ivan Alexaicvich
Asanoff bxfp a!#X AAppd p jhgtsk mspsion
which oenttrWAnd 90 'dhatfa before had been
the stronghold tf Tllnskt y. notorious robber.
cutthroat ana Hscsp naacer Zagoakin. who
describes himself as q Arna believer In witches,
ghosts. and apparitions and q great lover Of
tnI x,ta Ne
day; IN the company, Of . fellow ofncer.
ZArutski. who is bsphew OF Asanoff. Just
before the nAls l AsAah shkteau. they pass
through a bfeaksnecE rsvines and ZagqskIps
notices Aafleia ~ e1s tina Nh, lie covered With
sunken graves s1erut1id explains that these
are the gravel o. the People whom GAnskl
murdered. and tells how the occupants are be-
lieyed to rise every twenty five years, at II
o'clock on the eve ofst Thomas. and 60 In y
ghostly procesatan- to- the stronghold Of Aiin,
ski. AT the ehAtHsu the young men ars wnk1nly ::
where they meet s 8sseE5sss an M old oa,osswhc
had foughtundsf 6tvoroff; = ChsrolDuhins who
plumes himself on being freethinker. and
Alexai Dmitrioh. chief Of the district police
In the evening dirty Westher comes on. The
fine rain drives against the windows. and the
wind whistles around tho corners of the old
house and rattles the shutters. Inside. tho six
sit smoking their pipss. while the freight
hickers on the queer pictures Of Suvoroff and
his campaigns. painted on the opposite wall
What an atmosphere for ghost storiesl And
S S5ts fha Ths Psb "a sP TI,Sss
the stories haco1 Se % orennf more grewsome.
Finally at l2u,ohpok tho host Cells the story
marriage d hia asassissS and sisW ths Sridss
groom on snooan4lA adsteful prophecy. Sud.
ousssE e q
ened storyxsiis@. NE noises get louder and
fsis and ssaS eo cd 4sanos
In The wall WHERE oidd oorways I'D BEEN built
AZ they hear The samhiinE 81 bricfs: and feel
sesr ss sir Th psnSs
Easn S ssy courage to re-
saS vfs %oi sr ssss
town. The description OF Princess Landy-
iGsss q ia snG smans Ct
Of
S asns Sas ss Sspss s. the
,sySr The second g ne nephew III the Gsy:
hiIn with vain hopes, The third ts Prince
pc! choice q the widow for her stepdauehtsr.
Unfortunately this pretty sfepdaughter. Va
,eaka. has fallen IN love With ha9dsome
,ecret to her godfather Mkolaf iyanovich
aolmin. who is the confidential adviser Of
mfr I, draws Nine. slukin into atrap il wonder
re stery,of." Kpsraa Roschin.", the famous
niaa hs most q t issa.t%% rse The sp
,issss o. iii 'is rsssgsns the city and the
Iurrotndin9 towns, 1s a. horribly fascinating
= ANYTHING in the pages Of Thueydidss or
u Pdshk ino. the streets are as silent as ths
rave. The slant rays. OF the morning sun
loor 10; opened, no window Is swung out
Through a. desolation as that OF Jerusalem In
he days OF Jeremiah. Roschin and the driver