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4 POOR FOLK. Translated from the Russian of F EDOR DOSTOIEVSKY. By LENA MILMAN. With an Introduction by GEORGE MOORE, and a Title-page and Cover Design by AUBREY BEARDSLEY. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net.

' The book is cleverly translated. " Poor Folk " gains in reality and pathos by the very means that In less skilful hands would be tedious and commonp ace.'-—Sfcctator.

'A charming story of the love of a Charles Lamb kind of old bachelor for a young work-girl. Full of quiet humour and still more full of the lacbym nmmJ—Star.

'Scenes of poignant realism, described with so admirable a blending of humour and pathos that they haunt the memory.'—Daily Nms.

'No one will read it attentively without feeling both its power and its pathos.'—Scatmau.

'The book is one of great pathos and absorbing interest. Miss Milman given us an admirable version of it which will commend imlf to every one who cares for good literature.'—Gla:ng Herald.

'These things seem small, but in the hands of Dostoievsky they make a work of genius.'—Black and White.

'One of the most pathetic things in all literature, heartrending just because its tragedy is so repressed.'—Bookmau.

'As to novels, the very ﬁnest I have read of late or for long is " Poor Folk," by Fedor Dostoievsky, translated by Miss Lena Milman.'— Truth.

'A book to be read for the merits of its execution. The translator by the way has turned it into excellent English.'—Pall Mall Gazette.

' The narrative vibrates with feeliug, and these few unstudied letters convey to us a cry from the depths of a famished human soul. As faras we can judge, the English rendering, though simple, retains that ring of emotion which must distinguish the original.'—W:stmimt¢r Katie-w.

'One of the most striking studies in plain and simple realism which was ever writtenJ—Daily Telegraﬁll.

' " Poor Folk" is certainly a vivid and pathetic story.'—Glab¢.

P'A triumph of realistic art—a masterpieCe of a great writer.'—Morning art.

'Dostoievsky's novel has met with that rare advantage, 2 really good translator.'—-Quent.

' This admirable translation of a great author.'—Livnfool Mercury.

' " Poor Folk" Englished does not read like a translation—indubitably a masterpieceJ—Litermy World.

'Told with a gradually deepening intensity and force, a pathetic truthfulness which lives in the memory.'—Lud: Mercury.

'What Charles Dickens in his attpts to reproduce the seutiment and pathos of the humble deceived himself and others into thinking that he did, that F edor Dostoievsky actually does.'—Manclu:t¢r Guardian.

' It is a story that leaves the reader almost stunned. Miss Milman's translation is admirable.'—Gentlewoman.

'The translation ap to be well done so far as we have compared it with the original.'—. R. MORFILL in The Academy.

' A most impressive and characteristic imen of Russian ﬁction. Those to whom Russian is a sealed book will duly grateful to the translator (who has acquitted herself excellently), to Mr. Moore, and to the publisher for this presentment of Dostoievsky's remarkable novel.'—Times.