The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-28
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: y N. Gorky.

- about Maxim Gorky, Rus
Here lest comet in the literary heav
fan' $50 sudden advent and brilliant
cns. .he sensation OF Russia ant
To- and whose fiction is to be intro
- American readers this coming au
duoss Nv Charles scrlbner's Sons. Tine
tenn IA from an article In the cur
iO''s' .rr,ber Of the Critic, by Christian
Brnton ,...,,o. tor oxnro.
desire that his cry might be heard
ne that when he knocked some door
.uing open. Maxine Gorky. vaga'
~ and outcast, bids fair to capture the
,'e,,,,on of mankind. He asked but Q
~, vel asked with such sincerity, such
,.ssI,e self-pity, that he has been given
alone bread but wine. BY NeiliRs'
.,rdslr and lmplacably, the story Of his
,.,o,,prs he has strayed into paths Of
glory :. uors nedd,e. .,
.ys scuery-boy. gardener, Waterman
~ nstsr's apprentice is the pet of st.
.'...-.hnr0 and the particular idol of the
u.,,,.ts This tattered proletarlnn, who
e.. iron In roadside bitches. who worked
IA begged his way over the parched OF
swept face Of Russia, Is read through
=. Germany and is even known on the
'.s,or,rds where they sip book inconse.
,.r,n,ly and fancy themselves the focus OF
The universe
h.,tr was not, as many suppose, the first
!, ,root Of Russian tramp life; he is merely
i. chief paiuter and apologist. He began
!. writing of the gypsy, the mcshchanin,
Il -, bos,sk or barefooted, because he was
s,m.st Of their number, because Ike them
- ma been forced from the social groove
!, poyerty. by the moral and economic
Reorganization of Russia.
perslstent thirst for knowledge leo
ill., always TO keep book or two In the
~, ~ his blouse during those lean, err
Il ,,ot years. The publication In provincial
,.nsr ~ his first story was but gesture
rh.b brought some hint of the relief he
4 .n,ed for. Then came his friendship with
E@oenko, and the astounding success of
"A "Chekash.''
Al ene bound the vagrant became an
,ptSor he had entered upon the path of
RI
n Sketches and tales followed in rapid sue
n sssion, most of them appearing in the
MIN. though sometimes the Russkoye Boz
n ,,tstyo condescended to admit him. They
u rse mastery. vibrant prescriptions Of
n No life ne had known: many were auto
q biographical, and all were llIumed by pity
,pa darkened by pessimism, the dumb pes
n drsn Of the submerged, of those who
"A ,uHer and can see no end TO suffering.
Al times, as in the Song of the Fall
4 con-" the note became piercing in its lyric
tsanty; or proud In its defiance, as in the
n song Of the Petrel' More often, though.
4 Af showed the Interior OF some foul ka
mk. where bitter words were spoken and
hsrce blows struck, whore women were
beaten for mere relaxation, and vodka at
length brought sullcn oblivion.
~ y
Now and again the picture was relieved
b. some primal being who added a fash
81 radiance or lent n moment of savage
lfrror, but she usually left the sufferer
more troubled, more disheartened than
'Yei-wltness "Malva" or "Twenty-six and
oue'-left him, often, for someone more
ioilorn, more abandoned than himself.
Iiose early tales chanted the Odyssey OF
he outcast, the petty wagc.sarner. m.
rnerant cobbler or tlnsmith. the navy,
NE fisherman on the bleak headland
"A Az me restlessness Of soul, the scorn Of
convention, the blind craving for some.
N '0lhs different, something better, perhaps,
Ia solcn cnaracterIze these creatures, Cor.
I'D ~ nirrOTed with insisteot nou,.N L-e,d
M precision. His heroes were always vic
uns' and the victims were, as In Rus
van hctiou, usually heroes.
10y mere was something defiant, almost
HAlesnc about them. Instead of being re-
psu'''ea 1t was they who repudlated-
yvn WIN pathetic brayado Told In grim.
,uAfss accents, their story caused a shud.
~ Of pity and Of terror TO shoot from
'nt blaeS sea 10 Archangel. IT was n fri.
uMpa not Of bald realism. but NJ moo.
M. stronger, more colorful. and
sfatum N"h u ~
e passionate words spoken at the
~ OF Nekrassov had proven true: the
popnet mad come from the people,
hople '"e people, ana TO the
y ,act that he had become the center
V'usasm seems to have nroven too
Nv lot Gorky. DostoyevSkv sbottorod
M, NJ. puaht understood when they
NJ 'm above their heads. Not so this
81 N, Wo.and'thlrty. He seems dazed.
@ius. 'u' not knowing where