"Rudin" 55 CHAPTER V "A House of Gentlefolk" 73 CHAPTER VI "On the Eve" 91 CHAPTER VII "Fathers and Children" 107 CHAPTER VIII "Smoke" 127 CHAPTER IX "Virgin Soil" 137 CHAPTER X The Tales 161 CHAPTER XI Note on Turgenev's Life--His Character and Philosophy--"Enough"--"Hamlet and Don Quixote"--The "Poems in Prose"--Turgenev's Last Illness and Death--His Epitaph 185 I TURGENEV'S CRITICS AND HIS DETRACTORS CHAPTER I TURGENEV'S CRITICS AND HIS DETRACTORS A writer, Mr. Robert Lynd, has said: "It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. It is as though most of us were monotheists in our devotion to authors, and could not endure to see any respect paid to the images of the rivals of the gods of the moment. And so one year Tolstoy is laid prone as Dagon, and another year, Turgenev. And no doubt the day will come when Dostoevsky will fall from his huge eminence."