TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=. The book cover was modified by the transcriber and has been added to the public domain. 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. * * * * * [Illustration: =Leonid Andreyev=] SHORT-STORY MASTERPIECES VOLUME IV--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 IV PAGE Dostoevski, Apostle to the Lowly 5 Story: The Tree and the Wedding 17 Korolenko the Exile 33 Story: The Old Bell-Ringer 45 Garshin the Melancholiac 57 Story: Four Days 71 Chekhov, Recorder of Lost Illusions 95 Story: In Exile 113 Andreev: Apostle of the Terrible 131 Story: Silence 145 Gorki the Bitter 169 Story: Comrades 183 DOSTOEVSKI, APOSTLE TO THE LOWLY