The best known work of Levítoff is a volume of _Sketches from the Steppes_; but he has also written scenes from the life of the towns, under the title of _Moscow Dens and Slums_, _Street Sketches_, etc., and a volume to which some of his friends must have given the title of _Sorrows of the Villages, the High Roads, and the Towns_. In the second of these works we find a simply terrifying collection of tramps and outcasts of the large cities--of men sunk to the lowest level of city slum-life, represented without the slightest attempt at idealising them--and yet deeply human. _Sketches from the Steppes_ remains his best work. It is a collection of poems, written in prose, full of the most admirable descriptions of prairie nature and of tiny details from the life of the peasants, with all their petty troubles, their habits, customs, and superstitions. Plenty of personal reminiscences are scattered through these sketches, and one often finds in them a scene of children playing in the meadows of the prairies and living in accordance with the life of nature, in which every little trait is pictured with a warm, tender love; and almost everywhere one feels the unseen tears of sorrow, shed by the author. Amongst the several sketches of the life and work of Levítoff there is one--written with deep feeling and containing charming idyllic features from his childhood as well as a terrible account of his later years--by A. Skabitchévskiy, in his _History of Modern Russian Literature_. GLEB USPÉNSKIY