| PAGE |
|---|
| Marriage—Gogol | [1] |
| At the Police Inspector’s—Gorbounòv | [64] |
| Before the Justice of the Peace—Gorbounòv | [69] |
| Incompatibility of Temper—A. N. Ostròvsky | [72] |
| A Madman’s Diary—Gogol | [107] |
| Porridge—Nikolai Uspènsky | [135] |
| A Domestic Picture—A. N. Ostròvsky | [142] |
| “La Traviata”—Gorbounòv | [167] |
| A Seventeenth Century Letter from Ems—Gorbounòv | [170] |
| The Village Schoolmaster—N. Uspènsky | [174] |
| The Recollections of Onésime Chenapan—“Shchedrìn” | [185] |
| The Crocodile—Fèdor Dostoyèvsky | [205] |
| The Steam-Chicken—Glyeb Uspènsky | [236] |
| The Story of a Kopeck—S. Stepniak | [254] |
| The Dog’s Passport | [273] |
| A Trifling Defect in the Mechanism—Glyeb Uspènsky | [276] |
| The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit—“Shchedrìn” | [309] |
| Choir Practice—V. A. Slyeptzòv | [317] |
| The Eagle as Mecænas—“Shchedrìn” | [335] |