. The novels and stories of Iván Turgénieff . THE NOVELS AND STORIES OFIVAN TURGENIEFF •> •«• THE BRIGADIERAND OTHER STORIES TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BYISABEL F. HAPGOOD. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1904 Copyright, 1904, byCharles Scribners Sons THE DE VINNE PRESS PREFACE In the interval of ten years which elapsed be-tween Smoke and Virgin Soil, the critics,generally speaking, bore themselves coldly to-ward Turgenieffs productions, and the publicdid the same. Sometimes his sketches of variouslengths were condemned, and he was accused ofhaving deteriorated; sometimes they were praised
. The novels and stories of Iván Turgénieff . THE NOVELS AND STORIES OFIVAN TURGENIEFF •> •«• THE BRIGADIERAND OTHER STORIES TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BYISABEL F. HAPGOOD. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1904 Copyright, 1904, byCharles Scribners Sons THE DE VINNE PRESS PREFACE In the interval of ten years which elapsed be-tween Smoke and Virgin Soil, the critics,generally speaking, bore themselves coldly to-ward Turgenieffs productions, and the publicdid the same. Sometimes his sketches of variouslengths were condemned, and he was accused ofhaving deteriorated; sometimes they were praised,but without any special enthusiasm, and more asa matter of habit, more on account of the formerservices of the favourite author. In the criticismof that period there may be detected an attemptat diligent and thoughtful elucidation of the gen-eral inward meaning of the studies which the au-thor published year by year. A successful attempt of this sort was made bythe noted philosopher N. N. Strakhoff, in a fineand profound article published in The Dawn(1871). In a very original and penetrating man-ner this critic defines the hidden import in themajority of Turgenieffs st
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