"For grandeur, simplicity of conception, and superbness of description, can hardly be equalled."—New York Times.
"A wonderful prose epic, having all the charm and style of a stately poem,—one of the masterpieces of literature."—New York Star.
St. John's Eve, and Other Stories. By Nikolaï V. Gogol. 12mo. $1.25.
In these tales of Gogol, the marvellous abounds. His field of observation is the village. His heroes are unimportant people, with superstitious imaginations,—very simple souls, whose artless passions are shown without any veil, but whose very ingenuousness is a deliciously restful contrast to our romantic or theatrical characters, so insipid and perfunctory in the refinements of their conventionality.
This volume is the second of a series of Gogol's Works which we have in preparation, and will be followed by "Dead Souls," now in press.
A Vital Question; or, What is to be Done? By Nikolaï G. Tchernuishevsky. With portrait of the author. 12mo. $1.25.
"A famous but crude novel."—New York Tribune.
"Yet it so touches the deep realities of life that in its force one forgets its crudity of form."—Evening Traveller, Boston.
"People accustomed to think out of leading strings will be glad to read it."—Hartford Post.
Great Masters of Russian Literature. By Ernest Dupuy. Sketches of the Life and Works of Gogol, Turgénief, Tolstoï. With portraits. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. 12mo. $1.25.