CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE [I.] [Russian Characteristics] [1] [II.] [Realism of Russian Literature] [17] [III.] [Gogol and the Cheerfulness of the Russian People] [39] [IV.] [Tolstoy and Tourgeniev] [77] [V.] [The Place of Tourgeniev] [116] [VI.] [Dostoievsky] [125] [VII.] [Plays of Anton Tchekov] [263]