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THE BORZOI RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS



The following volumes in this admirable series are now ready. Additional works have been arranged for and are in preparation. One or two will be issued each season. The books are attractively bound in cloth, stamped in gold with coloured tops. They are uniform in style but the work of each author is bound in a distinctive colour.

I
TARAS BULBA: A Tale of the Cossacks by Nicolay V. Gogol. A great prose romance. Second edition. $1.35
II
THE SIGNAL: Presenting for the first time the work of a very important Russian, W. M. Garshin. Third ed. $1.50
III
CHELKASH: By Maxim Gorky. A selection of the best of all of Gorky's short stories. Third edition. $1.25
IV
THE LITTLE ANGEL: By Leonid Andreyev. The fifth edition, now ready, contains an additional story. $1.35
V
THE PRECIPICE: A Novel from the Russian of Ivan Goncharov. A picture of country life in the old leisurely Russia of the first half of the nineteenth century. $1.50
VI
A HERO OF OUR TIME: A Novel from the Russian of M. Y. Lermontov. A great romantic story. $1.50
VII
THE OLD HOUSE: From the Russian of Feodor Sologub. A novelette and ten striking stories. Second edition. $1.50
VIII
THE LITTLE DEMON: A Novel from the Russian of Feodor Sologub. The authorized English version, with a special preface, of this writer's most famous book. $1.50
IX
THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN: From the Russian of Vikenty Veressayev. A work (non-fiction) known the world over, which has placed its author in the first rank of Russian writers. It is of great importance to-day to any one who ever has to do in any way with doctors. $1.50
X
THE CRUSHED FLOWER: From the Russian of Leonid Andreyev. Three novelettes and some great short stories by this most popular of contemporary Russians. $1.50
XI
THE CONFESSIONS OF A LITTLE MAN DURING GREAT DAYS: By Leonid Andreyev. Andreyev's latest book; this tells about Russia in war time. $1.35
XII
THE JOURNAL OF LEO TOLSTOI: An intimate diary, never before published, that this greatest of all the Russians kept from 1895 to 1899.$2.00

All prices are net.



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