The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-01

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81 na--iop r"mIarrl si'h Ihirn- -
seems -"naV hat u, stng bro nuiua' spirit.
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y .harp CIV ~ nrgui-h ur . Profound -ith
pf rrgref hut be- ,ecm- deliberately - have
cultivated 'h" upIu"iTls InIi ~ b. hotter
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may l,efile than - h" blown hkr "haT
uron ih" wind of Ie-Iaig. ln tine. kplt-ov
vas. n not among the greatest certainly
ONE ~ M" heulthi"-'. manifest and mos'
sincere ~ Russian Singers
We uuntc nns uf krlt-n,' shorter ivr,r-
~ a. t.ngii-h tran-'at:on hv ~" author ~
This book
u va, not At '.r -urugrdr
when htr t,u'y, ncr srr'r.
Vnrn IN The vs.ing ncsdoH,
The Dung grass nr,t shows gre'u
70 tender dapn, N-r~ fYs1iuc
the ny with ro,y red.
Nor hid the moon her level ugtt
'pou our u"oing shed
No an WAS cbil. hut under
the GOODNESS and the tu,t
wrapped my love around o.
And held you closely kissed
The nights Of storm anl d4r,nc,
Ilcw oNrr ~ apart.
Nu4e swiftly than the cloud night
hthvat the suns bright face
Ma when the winters tempest
lIovlcd furious aud strung.
Ne listened while " cn,n'Cd
Tor uS II, strange, VIA ,onc
TIL ,Iyrn. tho cnciAn'cr. found -
MD I'D - ~ 'hS hsud
ACROSS the plans OF silence
inc hs Wond rTl8nd.
We tnrh to the author's account of Nek-
rs Ssnv. VINO has hscn csllei ia. Russian
swift. 81, strikes the. keynote 81 his work
when she rcca IL Shelley cry 10 leigh
Hunt 4 am SICK ~ hove songs v,ll no
ono give u- a hate song" The whole
inspiration Of Nekra~sov's contribution
10 Russian literature seems to have sprung
from bitterness and Indignation. More
than 3o,oO verses shot forth in "a single
Jet Of gall" NJ. de Vogue has "a allied IL.
Born in 1921, the son OF n Russirn land
owner by the daughter Of a rich Polish
ma Nichola, .Nekra ssov. the future
laureate of the Nihili-ts, was Intended by
hi. father for the military profession. bur
having been sent to st Petersburg to join
the military academy he Saw iii to enter
himself at the university, for which or'
Of disobediencc ic wa di.inherit, 81
and left at 10 TO make his living IA hcs'
he could. Thenceforth II wa> not with
mere IpNtIIN "" nti W ''i'tiN' W "
actual starvation. One winters night he
Law down exhausted on u lpnch in some
public garden in Petersburg and WAS only
saved from certain death by the charity
of 10 professional tramp. Subsequ emily
for some years he earned n wretched liveli-
hood 10y literary hack work. In the end
his material circumstances improved. hut
the turn in fortunes wheel came too late
and the spirit of revolt ~engendered 10y the
privations OF earlier years was never tanned.
The great historic events which folloNed
the accession Of Alexander H. mere i'm
potent Ia alter tho grim temper al his writ
ings. The emancipation Of the sertS, Io"
instance, left the singer OF their snnpring-
apparently untouched. At I'll events, IL
did very little 20 stop the aGrid Now oe his
peesimism. His death in 1877 ~ the gge of
50 WAS in keeping with the unbroken gloom
OF his life. The young Nihiistic party
followed their psalmist 10 the cemetery
In a silent, solemn procession conducted
under the eye of the police,
II IL characteristic of NekrG>~ov that
although he has aYnlyHNd love from several
points O view hc has left no love lyrics
IN the ordinary srusH al tho word. HIS