Transcriber's note
Frederick Eisemann translation
Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired silently.
Word errors have been corrected and a list of corrections can be found after the book.
Contemporary Russian Novelists
Translated from the French of Serge Persky By Frederick Eisemann
John W. Luce and Company Boston — 1913
Copyright, 1912 By C. Delagrave
Copyright, 1913 By L. E. Bassett
To THE MEMORY OF F. N. S. by The Translator