TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS; words in bold are represented as in =bold=, and superscript text is represented with the sign ^{text}. A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept. Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain. * * * * * [Illustration: =Nikolai V. Gogol=] SHORT-STORY MASTERPIECES VOLUME III--RUSSIAN DONE INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN COURNOS INTRODUCTIONS BY J. BERG ESENWEIN _Editor of Lippincott’s Magazine_ THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL Springfield, Massachusetts 1913 Copyright 1912 and 1913--J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright 1913--THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL CONTENTS - VOLUME III PAGE General Introduction: The Russian Short-Story 5 Pushkin and the New Era 13 Story: The Snow-Storm 31 Gogol, the First Russian Realist 53 Story: The Cloak 69 Turgenev the Emancipator 125 Story: The District Doctor 139 Tolstoi, Artist and Preacher 157 Story: A Long Exile 175 THE RUSSIAN SHORT-STORY In introducing the volumes of this series which deal with the work of French fictionists I commented upon the real distinction existing between the French short-story and the short-story in French, asserting that the former is a precise term because the greater number of worthy short-stories in French really exhibit the typical French spirit and are therefore French.