tistic prodigal that he was tempted to take.

E. R.

The following is the list of Turgenev's chief works:

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the
Experiences of a Sportsman, from French version, by J. D. Meiklejohn,
1855; Annals of a Sportsman, from French version, by F. P. Abbott, 1885;
Tales from the Notebook of a Sportsman, from the Russian, by E. Richter,
1895; Fathers and Sons, from the Russian, by E. Schuyler, 1867, 1883;
Smoke: or, Life at Baden, from French version, 1868, by W. F. West,
1872, 1883; Liza: or, a Nest of Nobles, from the Russian, by W. R. S.
Ralston, 1869, 1873, 1884; On the Eve, a tale, from the Russian, by C.
E. Turner, 1871; Dimitri Roudine, from French and German versions, 1873,
1883; Spring Floods, from the Russian, by S. M. Batts, 1874; from the
Russian, by E. Richter, 1895; A Lear of the Steppe, From the French, by
W. H. Browne, 1874; Virgin Soil, from the French, by T. S. Perry, 1877,
1883, by A. W. Dilke, 1878; Poems in Prose, from the Russian, 1883;
Senilia, Poems in Prose, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by S.
J. Macmillan, 1890; First Love, and Punin and Baburin from the Russian,
with a Biographical Introduction, by S. Jerrold, 1884; Mumu, and the
Diary of a Superfluous Man, from the Russian, by H. Gersoni, 1884;
Annouchka, a tale, from the French version, by F. P. Abbott, 1884;
from the Russian (with An Unfortunate Woman), by H. Gersoni, 1886; The
Unfortunate One, from the Russian, by A. R. Thompson, 1888 (see above
for Gersoni's translation); The Watch, from the Russian, by J. E.
Williams, 1893.

WORKS: Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, 15 vols., 1894-99.
1906. Novels and Stories, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, with an
Introduction by Henry James, 1903, etc.

LIFE: See above, Biographical Introductions to Poems in Prose and First
Love; E. M. Arnold, Tourgueneff and his French Circle, translated from
the work of E. Halperine-Kaminsky, 1898; J. A. T. Lloyd, Two Russian
Reformers: Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, 1910.

VIRGIN SOIL

"To turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep
plough going well into the earth, not a surface plough
gliding lightly over the top."--From a Farmer's Notebook.

I

AT one o'clock in the afternoon of a spring day in the year 1868, a
young man of twenty-seven, carelessly and shabbily dressed, was toiling
up the back staircase of a five-storied house on Officers Stre