The second of his ballets, “Petrouschka,” was completed on May 26, 1911. It was first produced in Paris in the same year. The scene of Petrouschka is a carnival. One of the characters is a showman, and in his booth are three animated dolls. In the center is one with pink cheeks and a glassy stare. On one side of this is a fierce negro, and on the other the simple Petrouschka. These three play out a tragedy of love and jealousy, which ends with the shedding of Petrouschka’s vital sawdust. One critic has said: “This ballet is, properly speaking, a travesty of human passion, expressed in terms of puppet gestures and illumined by music as expositor. The carnival music is a sheer joy, and the incidents making a demand upon music as a depictive medium have been treated not merely with marvelous skill, but with unfailing instinct for the true satirical touch. ‘Petrouschka’ is, in fact, the musical presentment of Russian fantastic humor in the second generation.” “The Crowning of Spring” was composed during the winter of 1912 and 1913, and was produced both in Paris and London during the following spring and summer. Recently Stravinsky has composed several songs which are done in the same spirit as that in which he wrote his compositions for the orchestra. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 4, No. 18, SERIAL No. 118 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC. THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS · NOV. 1, 1916. RUSSIAN MUSIC By HENRY T. FINCK _Author and Music Critic_ [Illustration: I. TCHAIKOVSKY] [Illustration: ANTON RUBINSTEIN] _MENTOR GRAVURES_ RUBINSTEIN MOUSSORGSKY TCHAIKOVSKY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV GLINKA STRAVINSKY Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1916, by The Mentor Association, Inc. So far as the world at large is concerned, Russian music--which has come so much to the fore in recent years--began with Rubinstein, who lived till 1894. There was, indeed, one other composer of note before him--Glinka--but Glinka’s music, though very popular in Russia, remained almost unknown in other countries, whereas Rubinstein, and, after him, Tchaikovsky (also spelled Tschaikowsky), conquered the whole world.