No man can read "In Memoriam"
or "The Ring and the Book" with-
out passing beyond the boundaries of
his individual experience into experi-
ences which broaden and quicken his
own spirit; and no one can become
familiar with the novels of Tourgue-
neff or Tolstoi without touching life
at new points and passing through
emotions which would never have
been stirred in him by the happen-
ings of his own life. Such a story as
"Anna Karenina" leaves no reader
of imagination or heart entirely un-
changed; its elemental moral and
artistic force strikes into every recep-
tive mind and leaves there a knowl-
edge of life not possessed before. The
work of the Russian novelists has
been, indeed, a new reading in the
book of experience; it has made a
notable addition to the sum total of

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