Gontcharóff--_Oblomoff_--The Russian malady of Oblomoffdom--Is
it exclusively Russian? _The Precipice_--Dostoyévskiy--His
first novel--General character of his work--_Memoirs
from a Dead House_--_Down-trodden and Offended_--_Crime and
Punishment_--_The Brothers Karamázoff_--Nekrasoff--Discussions
about his talent--His love
of the people--Apotheosis of Woman--Other prose-writers
of the same epoch--Serghéi Aksákoff--Dal--Ivan
Panaeff--Hvoschinskaya (V. Krestovskiy-pseudonyme)--Poets
of the same epoch--Koltsoff--Nikitin--Pleschéeff--The
admirers of pure art: Tutcheff; A. Maykoff;
Scherbina; A. Fet--A. K. Tolstóy--The Translators.