Personal sketches of recent authors . 250 PL. LYEFF TOLST6I. LYEFF TOLSTOI. IN literature the coming man is, in all probability,a Russian. From no nation have we at presentreason to expect as much, in the near future, as fromthe dwellers in that still half-mysterious had its Homer, Italy its Dante, England itsShakespeare, Germany its Goethe, and if one mightpredict where the next universal genius or world-man would arise, he would be justified in looking toRussia, first of all, for that unique product of thebest world force. We shall hardly produce such agenius in the New World. Th

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Personal sketches of recent authors . 250 PL. LYEFF TOLST6I. LYEFF TOLSTOI. IN literature the coming man is, in all probability,a Russian. From no nation have we at presentreason to expect as much, in the near future, as fromthe dwellers in that still half-mysterious had its Homer, Italy its Dante, England itsShakespeare, Germany its Goethe, and if one mightpredict where the next universal genius or world-man would arise, he would be justified in looking toRussia, first of all, for that unique product of thebest world force. We shall hardly produce such agenius in the New World. There is too much equal-ity, too much prosperity, too much general intelli-gence. We cannot expect giants where the averagestature of mankind is so high; we shall look in vainfor one man than his brethren taller and fairer. He may be already born among the steppes ofRussia. In some bleak settlement, on the far plainsof Siberia, or in the wilds of the stern Caucasus, oron the banks of the lonely Neva, or in some littlecommunal village in the No

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