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 hearts of the listeners more than printed stories could ever have done.

Gorky carefully collected all these materials, and made good use of them in his book “White People.”

At one of these gatherings all present were arrested by the police and placed in the police cells; where young Gorky made the acquaintance of some students, who had been irregularly arrested and who afterwards sought his society. In university circles he imbibed different ideas and thoughts from those fermenting in the hearts and brains of his former associates.

While sheltered in the cottage with these miserable people he had been given vodka (whisky) to drink, and now ushered into these higher circles he was fed by abstractions. It is easy to understand the awe reigning in his young mind, when, after some philosophical meeting, he had