The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05

pation. and a. Dmitrt Mere AoaaAi nae ~
truthfuIly declared. 4Hs iTol1apyl haa
newer loved any man. not even himnsA y
FuFthsrmOre TIRRenisH Was ono q IA
grsatsai artists the world has had (taine
places him With the Grsshs a. stoTy teller,
ygt be- po@seaaed little thematic invsnsionl.
Ne resembles Yelasqus1 a. a painter q
pOrtRits Mr. Barring compares him 70
I Tennysnu. which h not happy; nor % his
comparison Of DostoIsvsky with Velasquss
any hsttsr Dostoisvaky and " Greco
would have been more apt. Turgenisds
women are charming and lifeliks. biz men
are nearly always second rate Hdlisls.
superauOus men. without volition, though
not suffering from such pronounced aboo-
la a. Oblomov IN GOntcharOv's novel q
that name. Young Russia. 20 Mr.. Barring
reports. win have no mOrs % Turgsnieh .
rovOlutionaries; his famous Nihllist BaEa-
row In -Fathsrs and sons Il abused -
much to-day ~ eAFioature - e was BY
Doaiolevsky In his -Dsvils' ('The Poe
seased-). Ast Roudins. he IL considered
a poor pale portrait Of that extraordinary
man Rakunin. who sc all European
secret police by the ears up 10 the time Of
his death In lsTe walisEsWski believes
THAI Beltov In HcFzsns Whose Fault Il
more truthfally representative o. the
Russian Of the 90 than any q the heroes
Of TurEenieH. Tolsioy never returned the
admintion u nurgenisd. Dossoisvsky
lOathsd him and oarinatursd him. Tw-
gtnisd vas too oftsA absent from Russia
His iamOus irisndahip with Madame
Pauline Viardot- Garcia began at 81.
Petersburg In isTS. He went % 1--we near
her In Badsn-Badsn few years later. and
then followed hsr 70 Paris. where he daelt
harmoniously IN her household until his
death IN is3 Dooidedly the Action q
Ivan SsrGuisisvitch vas too Occidental
Tor the gsnsration succeeding him; yet
Il bs an imperishabls classic who win b
taken down from the shelf when the time
h EipS for his rVdiscoveRy. A. In the
music o. TschaikOwsky. there are foreign
elsnenes in bis WORK that displsaas the
thick and thin Slavophil. To-day ModsSaS
MousporEsky 10 the modern nationalist In
Russian muaio making. but In elemental
power DoatolSysky is the peer Of all the
Russians. not excepting Pushktn, and
In the Christlike humility q the man. the
slectric rssponss 10 aspiring bumans.
DoatOisvsky has cone into his IN
hsritAnCs. A fsW years ago Ne dealt In
thess columns With MersjkOWskis com
parntive study of Tolstoy and DostOIsv-
sky. For the first time ths truth was
told that ID in English, a. De VOg0e and
Emile Hsnnequin in French had expressed
similar We've. and years before the Rus
aiMn critic. This truth concerned TOT
stoy. N did not make PLEASANT reading
for the Tolstoyana. but Merejkowski ID
a thinker Of too large q calibre 20 depre-
ciats Tolstoy for the sake Of exAlting
DostoIevsky He merely lee the English
reading world into the secret % TOlstoy's
position in his native land and proved
Dostotsvsky the profOunder genius 81 the
Two. the man who had suffered and who
knew; who was not an artist Of the inches
% Tolstoy. hut never for a moment a glo-
rihed dilettante Dostosevsky did not
fear Hfes-hs went 20 the people, suffered
in silence for political offence in SHE
ma. also suffered from epilepsy. and
was a martyr q misfortune. an exile.
gamblaT. a wholly miserable man. TOl-
stoy imagined such vicissitudss hat did
not experience them He denies life and
iSs values Consider the character Of
the heavily hardened Sonia d Dostolev-
sky and her Intellectual copy in Tolstoy's
'ResurrectiOn-i Nistzschs Was only just
when he wrote u DOstOisvsky: This pro-
found man. who Was ten times right 10
dspFrciats the superficial Germans. has
perceived that the Siberian conviCts we're
persons carved almost out Of the
best. the hardest and the most valuable
material 20 be found In Russian domin-
ions 90 that material vas DostoIevsky
himself carved He had faced expected
death on the scaHold and he lived 20 tell
tie world that this terrifying expcrienoe.
coupled with his impris0nment. was the
cause that led 10 the discovery Of his own
aoul and % the Russian soul Little
wonder Barring quotes some writer's a.
believing that DOstoievsky 10 one Of the
greatsst writer's that ever lived. Ger
tainly few have excelled him in sounding
the chords Of poignant emotion. BROCK
ner dOea not heEitats 20 maintain that Il
h not In Faust bait rather in 'C1me and
Punishment thatthe whole grief Of man
kind takes bold Of Us; and it was that
very novel that George Moore once de-
scribsd a. -GabOriau with psychological
sance. which epigram he disoWnsd Whsn
be wrote an Introduction 10 Poor Folks
q Dostolevpky.
Mr.. Raring leans hea Willy upon Merei-
kOWski's study: but he n not quite fair
10 The women in DOstOievsky. Natasia
PhihpOvnA in The Idiot IL sOmsthinR
mOre than a coUrtesan. She Il a mar
velloua exposition Of tho Russian fsmi-
nins soul IN ardent decompONition. And
Grlschsnka in -BtOthen Karamasov,
though q slightsr sketch. u a vital creA-
ton. a. We may remember after Ala
NGximOva's eloqusnt portrayal Of tho
character when here in company with
OrlensG. that actor II genius. Il IL
patty that the adpirable vitziteIly trans
lations Of Crime and Punishment
The Possessed . vivid picture Of
nihilism. with an adumbration Of the
SupsrmAn. which NietRsche appreciated;
The Idiot a masterpiece; 'Ths Gam
bier. The Friend Of the Family. Injury
and Insult are no longer in print The
'BrOthera KaramasOv' haa not baen
translated into English to our knowIsdRs.
Il h indeed . symphony Of good and evil
and in IL the real soul q Russia become
vocal A ayuanhonw thar vfhratas ,,sth