psychological genius) which is classical in its treatment and expression throughout: the balance of Turgenev’s intellect reigns ever supreme over the natural morbidity of his subject. And thus _Smoke_ in every sense of the word is a classic for all time. EDWARD GARNETT. _January 1896._ THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK Grigóry [_Grísha_] Mihálovitch Litvínov. Tat-yána [_Tánya_] Petróvna Shestóv. Kapitolína Márkovna. Rostisláv Bambáev. Semyón Yákovlevitch Voroshílov. Stepán Nikoláevitch Gubar-yóv. Matróna Semyónovna Suhántchikov. Tit Bindásov. Pish-tchálkin. Sozónt Ivánitch Potúgin. Irína Pávlovna Osínin. Valerián Vladímirovitch Ratmírov. In transcribing the Russian names into English-- _a_ has the sound of _a_ in _father_. _e_ „ „ _a_ in _pane_. _i_ „ „ _ee_. _u_ „ „ _oo_. _y_ is always consonantal except when it is the last letter of the word. _g_ is always hard. I On the 10th of August 1862, at four o’clock in the afternoon, a great number of people were thronging before the well-known _Konversation_ in Baden-Baden. The weather was lovely; everything around--the green trees, the bright houses of the gay city, and the undulating outline of the mountains--everything was in holiday mood, basking in the rays of the kindly sunshine; everything seemed smiling with a sort of blind, confiding delight; and the same glad, vague smile strayed over the human faces too, old and young, ugly and beautiful alike. Even the blackened and whitened visages of the Parisian demi-monde could not destroy the general impression of bright content and elation, while their many-coloured ribbons and feathers and the sparks of gold and steel on their hats and veils involuntarily recalled the intensified brilliance and light fluttering of birds in spring, with their rainbow-tinted wings. But the dry, guttural snapping of the French jargon, heard on all sides could not equal the song of birds, nor be compared with it.