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316 has awakened within her the desire for better things through her association with her master, a weak-willed bachelor who has deserted the gay life of the cities and come to his estate in the provinces to live. When the consciousness of her individuality comes, Anna Timofeevna, the woman, leaves the estate and her two children, and goes to Moscow to study. She wishes to get the diploma of doctor's assistant. She spends two years at Moscow, and when she returns with her diploma, eager, feeling that she is now a fit companion for her "man," and a fit mother for her children, she finds that her place has been taken by a common servant. The colorless life on the farm in Little Russia has transformed the man, never very intellectual or ambitious, into a dull clod, seeking nothing but the satisfaction of his lower desires. She was no longer wanted. She had become his superior in mind and instincts. But the woman's former ideal of the man, the thing that had given her the moral strength to bear the two lonely years in Moscow and that had awakened her to a knowledge of herself, will give her the power to rise above this bitter disappointment.

The Whirlwind deals with another phase of the woman's question, and unfolds the peculiar relations that the members of two families hold to each other. The volume holds two interesting tales by a Russian writer only one of whose works has hitherto appeared in English garb.

L. S. F.

The April number of the Medical Review of Reviews contains an extremely interesting article by the editor of the Review, Dr. Victor Robinson, on the late Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Before discussing the work of Pavlov, Dr. Robinson gives the following survey of Russia's gallery of scientists, whose work has been invaluable in the advancement of the world's scientific thought: