her rapture in her hesitating lover's embrace, are artistically a sublimation of all the impressions and instincts by which woman fascinates, and fulfils her purpose of creation. The projection of this shadowy woman's love-hunger on the mighty screen of the night earth, and the merging of her power in men's restless energies, felt and divined through the sweeping tides of nature's incalculable forces, is an inspiration which, in its lesser fashion, invites comparison with Shakespeare's creative vision of nature and the supernatural. In his treatment of the supernatural Turgenev, however, sometimes missed his mark. _The Dog_ (1866) is of a coarser and indeed of an ordinary texture. With the latter story may be classed _The Dream_ (1876), curiously Byronic in imagery and atmosphere, and artistically not convincing. Far more sincere, psychologically, is _Clara Militch_ (1882), a penetrating study of a passionate temperament, a story based on a tragedy of Parisian life. In our opinion _The Song of Triumphant Love_, though exquisite in its jewelled mediaeval details, has been overrated by the French, and Turgenev's genius is here seen contorted and cramped by the _genre_. To return to the tales of the 'sixties. _Lieutenant Yergunov's Story_, though its strange atmosphere is cunningly painted, is not of the highest quality, comparing unfavourably with _The Brigadier_ (1867), the story of the ruined nobleman, Vassily Guskov, with its tender, sub-ironical studies of odd characters, Narkiz and Cucumber. _The Brigadier_ has a peculiarly fascinating poignancy, and must be prized as one of the rarest of Turgenev's high achievements, even as the connoisseur prizes the original beauty of a fine Meryon etching. The tale is a microcosm of Turgenev's own nature; his love of Nature, his sympathy with all humble, ragged, eccentric, despised human creatures, his unfaltering, keen gaze into character, his perfect eye for relative values in life, all mingle in _The Brigadier_ to create for us a sense of the vicissitudes of life, of how a generation of human seed springs and flourishes awhile on earth and soon withers away under the menacing gaze of the advancing years.