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The Seven that were Hanged, was published in England--last year, I think--by Mr. Fifield. It received a very great deal of praise, and was, in fact, treated as a psychological masterpiece. I was disappointed with it myself, for the very simple reason that I found it tedious. I had difficulty in finishing it. I gather that Andreief has a great reputation in Russia, sharing with Gorky the leadership of the younger school. Well, I don't suppose that I shall ever read any more Gorky, who has assuredly not come up to expectations. There are things among the short stories of Andreief (the volume is entitled
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Nouvelles ) which are better than
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The Seven that were Hanged.
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The Governor, for example, is a pretty good tale, obviously written under the influence of Tolstoy's
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Death of Ivan Ilyitch