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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO, AND OTHER STORIES. By I. A. Bunin. Translated from the Russian by D. H. Lawrence, S. S. Koteliansky, and Leonard Woolf. 4s. net.

I. A. Bunin is a well-known Russian writer, but his short stories have not hitherto been published in an English translation. Four stories are included in this volume. The “Times Literary Supplement” in reviewing a French translation of the first story in this volume says: “Whatever its faults this is certainly one of the most impressive stories of modern times.”

DAYBREAK, a Book of Poems. By Fredegond Shove. 3s. 6d.

Mrs. Shove has the distinction of being the only woman poet whose work has been included in Georgian Poetry, although she has previously published only one volume, Dreams and Journeys.

KARN. A Poem. By Ruth Manning-Sanders. 3s. 6d. net.

This is an ambitious narrative poem by a young writer who has previously published one book of short poems. Unlike most narrative poems it is vivid and readable.

172THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COUNTESS SOPHIE TOLSTOI. With Introduction and Notes by Vasilii Spiridonov. Translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. 4s. net.

This autobiography was written by Tolstoi’s wife in 1913 and is extraordinarily interesting, not only “as a human document,” but in the light which it throws upon Tolstoi’s life and teaching and on those relations with his wife and family which led up to his “going away.” Countess Tolstoi wrote it at the request of the late S. A. Vengerov, a well-known Russian critic. He intended to publish it, but this intention was not carried out owing to the war and his death. The MS. was discovered recently among his papers and has just been published in Russia. It deals with the whole of Tolstoi’s married life, but in particular with the differences which arose between him and his wife over his doctrines and his desire to put them into practice in their way of living. It also gives an account of Tolstoi’s “going away” and death. The book is published with an introduction by Vasilii Spiridonov and notes and appendices which contain information regarding Tolstoi’s life and teachings not before available to English readers.

173PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS

CLIVE BELL

Poems. 2s. 6d. net.

T. S. ELIOT

Poems. Out of print.

E. M. FORSTER

The Story of the Siren. Out of print.

ROGER FRY

Twelve Original Woodcuts. Third impression. 5s. net.

MAXIM GORKY

Reminiscences of Tolstoi. Second edition. 5s. net.

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Prelude. 3s. 6d. net.

HOPE MIRRLEES

Paris. A Poem. Out of print.

J. MIDDLETON MURRY

The Critic in Judgment. 2s. 6d. net.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Stories from the Old Testament retold. 4s. 6d. net.

The Note-books of ANTON TCHEKHOV, together with Reminiscences of TCHEKHOV by Maxim Gorky. 5s. net.

LEONARD WOOLF

Stories of the East. 3s. net.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Monday or Tuesday. With Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. 4s. 6d. net. The Mark on the Wall. Second edition. 1s. 6d. net. Kew Gardens. Out of print.

LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF

Two Stories. Out of print.

174REMINISCENCES OF TOLSTOI

By MAXIM GORKY.

Second Edition. 5s. net.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS

“In these few pages Gorky has laid bare, not completely, but yet mercilessly, the soul of Tolstoi, and one draws back baffled.”—Glasgow Herald.

“If the purpose of biography is to thrill the reader, Gorky has succeeded in equalling Cellini and in outdoing Audrey.”—Mr. Edmund Gosse in The Sunday Times.

“The book did not horrify me; it held me breathless.”—“Wayfarer” in The Nation.

“... a masterpiece: so long as men are interested in one another it must live.”—Time and Tide.

“We quote and quote because nearly every line of those brief reflections or criticisms has its own terrifying clearness.”—The Observer.

“Sometimes by accident an untouched amateur photograph of a great personage will drop out of an album or of an old drawer, and instantly the etchings, the engravings, the portraits by Watts and Millais seem insipid and lifeless. Such is the effect of Gorky’s Notes on Tolstoi.”—New Statesman.

“A book of frank and fearless truth.”—Mr. Hamilton Fyfe.

“All Tolstoi is to be found in it.”—The Open Court.

175TCHEKHOV’S NOTE-BOOKS

Together with Reminiscences of TCHEKHOV

by MAXIM GORKY.

5s. net.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS

“Nothing in this book, we are told, has been translated before, but it was all worth translating.”—Times Literary Supplement.

“I regret that they have been published.”—J. Middleton Murry in the Athenaeum.

“What one feels is what wonderful stories he might have made of them.”—Time and Tide.

“Tchekhov’s Note-books have been admirably translated and speak for themselves.”—British Weekly.

“To a writer, as one who possibly keeps such note-books himself, they have the greatest interest. To the general reader they will be interesting just so far as he or she is concerned with life.”—Daily Chronicle.

“The charm of this book is that the reader has the sensation of perfectly intimate, easy intercourse with Tchekhov himself.”—New Statesman.

“It is, as it were, the rude ore of inspiration and observation, from which literary metal of a high quality might have come.”—Sheffield Independent.

“His ‘notes’ are like flashlights which catch human nature off its guard at critical moments.”—Manchester Guardian.

176MONDAY OR TUESDAY

By VIRGINIA WOOLF.

With Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell.

91 pp. 4s. 6d. net.

PRESS OPINIONS

“But here is ‘Kew Gardens’—a work of art, made, ‘created,’ as we say, finished, four-square; a thing of original and therefore strange beauty with its own atmosphere, its own vital force.... The more one gloats over ‘Kew Gardens,’ the more beauty shines out of it ... and the more one likes Mrs. Bell’s Kew Garden woodcuts.”—The Times.

“‘The Mark on the Wall’ is a wonderful description.”—The New Statesman.

“No one who values beauty in words should miss ‘The Haunted House.’”—Daily News.

“And how amazingly it is rendered! No one interested in the expression of modern thought through modern art should miss these consummate renderings.... There is imagination here, insight and honesty. Mrs. Woolf’s style is individual, and so exquisitely suited to its subject that her pictures do not seem made with words, but with the very stuff of our mental processes.”—Observer.

“It is a new thing, made up of a new way of using words and a new way of suggesting emotions.”—Woman’s Leader.

“The beauty—not only of her writing, but of what she sees and gets through into it—is at times overwhelming. ‘A Haunted House’ is a little masterpiece; like nothing else one has ever seen so much as tried in prose.”—Time and Tide.

“In ‘Monday or Tuesday,’ Virginia Woolf has added some fine examples of her imaginative genius to the two stories already printed.”—Manchester Guardian.

Transcriber’s Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.