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

l. ,,s al Hu..at u.,Y..l
H,.x. -. ,n,., go L,,. D., IN. hrs, half
a, ~. .,gh,earth century Riehnsky. The
sr., yrc.t Ru-s,an CRITIC regarded Ion,o-
NASSAU u7io-a;, AZ IN. fra, Russian pne'
vo.,hy a, tho name Khsr,skov G5s}-
,,o., must loo credited with y monumen-
al x,r v.r., .nti'I.d The Rus
.,ad . which earned for INN m, pnrnputs
all. a., the Russian Unm.r Ito was
u.,,,Iy LororsI bv h. emporar,.s
"a .,c,rd;u, o., N.l,u-k Ina intn.nr..
I,stad until che ,pte.r,ncc of Piishkin.
p,yd.noyich l7os-7sl is h.sr known hv
h,s uythoI,y,aI uncm "p-yChe tInI-
sn.,L which seems tn have eninvpd
.,,,,o,din.rx nouulari,y and which. ~
t,r, a ,bc main idea isc,nrprn.d. was hor-
,oxcd grou l., Fn~ntaip, : psych 81 CtI,i-
do, = ~Vh.r. 90 ask kpauZn. doubtless
.,n,sss,np IN. ouinion ~ his dav. 80 'he
ru..i.n g n, has not read 'Dush.nka -
sir .Iron Bow ring IN his Russian An
,hol,gv- .p.aks of n AZ n graceful and
,.,olv noan : moro mod.rn writer.
w.Esy.nA; in Ina -His,ory of Russian
I,srn,urs Sc savs Thai Boedanovich has in
,,od,,c.d ,n,o m, work epi-odas of a "re-
,,l,;oyc vnici.m. and Denoted his "Psychs"
-. d. "a y,Ig.r and deprovsd coauette.- The
.u,bor 90 the book before us thinks that
,h. ,ysraye reader will neither he cap
,i,o,s nv tbe literary grace nor shock ed
hv Tho obacep;,v nf aDushsuka but will
,nl, ,,,,do, mildly thai m, ,llepory should
haya called forth rxnrcs .ion- of cxtrava-
cam n,aisa ar ,snsrr.
p.slng ,rsr yon Win whose ,i,t. we've
.xsrc,s.d a,p,s, oschis,vrly ia the sphere
~ d,,ma,ic I,.ra,urc u,,r author finds in
D.,ia,in IN. max, link in the chain If Rus
.;ot. n,,,ry In ,7so he won ,hc r,vor of
.a,,.rnc II hy his uoem ~F,I,-," in
which no ssny trc praises -, the Impress
81 ,,;r,,,r >, s,u. axten, tho .en,i-
r.n,s and ch,~rac,crstics O., her reign.
An,,,is, h, ,cn,n.,,uent no invested the
..,,.n,i,,,, vers. ~, the day with a fresh
No.. and charm unk noyn "a his con,em-
rn..r.s u;s ,r,cra,p,ic o,l.s have been
.am,,,,d for n,n.,ic Insanity and graceful
,,o.ae,y IA some nf the gems i'm the Greek
.n,h,ln,, hu, ,lread- in this uoet traces
~ ,~.,,nnnl sentiment are discerniblc,
.li,h, indseJ I'm, suAicicn, 70 make the
rc.der r,,li,, almos, for the first time that
Ia "a !, ,on,a,, with n Russian mind
our ,u,ho, feels that in reviewing the
,,.cu,so,s or p,shkip sh. canno, ovsr-
Ill k,ramyin u7so-lsas, although
.,r,,,Iy sncak ING he Was moi "A Doet hui "A
,.,,,.r HIS influence however upon
.r.rv branch or Rnss,an literature was
nrofoupd because he substituted for the
.,,,,,d ,ic,ion of the schools. tho living
language no, indeed of the nation. hut Of
.,cic,y In ,lc,,ipr 70 cnnress himself
nth greater simplicity hsramsin Incl.
d.r,,lI,. byourht abou, , great reforma-
,;o, in h,s pative tongue. lie began the
.n,nr,n,,iop ,r tho Russian iappuas 90
tr,m rho Lopdauc Of classical convention
,hc coupl.,e fnl6Imcn, of which onlv
c.n,s Win pushkip
To the period of Ksramlin's influence,
which lasted abou, a quarter of a century,
.uc,,ccdcd IN. romantic movement. but
heg,ro yiyinu some account OF The ~latter's
leading rcprcscn,atiycs our author deems
!, adyisahlc 10 show i'm what way the ro-
man,icism Of Russia differs from that ~
Western countries. 1, seems that the
essential difference lies in the fact that in
tbc former ca,., il was a reflected light from
other com lands, whereas in the
ln,tcr il was the revival Of q hyzone spirit.
Consequently. though il colored the imagi-
nation Of Russian writer's, il did not mould