The New York _Evening Post_ says: "Maxim Gorky, the young Russian poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, the most ardent worshipper at the shrine of Nietzsche and his ideal 'Over-Man,' owes much of his sudden popularity to his personality.

The son of a poor upholsterer, Gorky was thrown upon his own resources at the age of nine and since then has experienced a wide range of human emotions, struggles, depravity and misery.
Shoemaker, apple peddler, painter, dock-hand, railroad workman, baker and tramp, this unique author had a thousand and one similar occupations, and had even made more than one attempt to take his own life." This version of =Foma Gordeyev=, is in no way abridged, giving the exact reproduction of the thought and expression of the author.

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=THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED.

By Leonid Andreyev.= (Published 1909.) What reviewers say: "It is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more impressive than any other Russian fiction translated in a long time.

Under the crystal simplicity of Andreyev's style each spirit reveals itself, stripped of its bodily covering, in its inmost truth."-- =New York Times.= "Grewsome because it is fearfully real.