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...close scrutiny of Russian literature reveals an innate comprehension of the Christian faith, a strong religious tendency and an earnest seeking after the solution of the human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
...playing Hamlet without a Prince of Denmark." Lomakin smiled. Chafee conceded that some U.S. newspapers might slant the news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...
...widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism...
More Industry Than Skill. In the rich field of literary biography, Americans had a thin year. In Leo Tolstoy, Columbia Professor Ernest J. Simmons made use of much new material, and his book seemed likely to become a standard text. Matthew Josephson's Stendhal was the most thorough work in English on the French novelist, but its qualities arose more out of industriousness than skill...
Biographer Simmons, professor of Russian literature at Columbia, has also written biographies of Pushkin and Dostoevsky. His work on Tolstoy includes much material, such as diaries of Tolstoy's wife and his letters to her, that were unavailable to Aylmer Maude, whose Life of Tolstoy, published in 1910, has been standard in English. Along with a Russian biography by N. N. Gusev, of which only two volumes have yet appeared, the Simmons biography is the most authoritative and objective work on the subject...