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letter-carriers of it. At the time of the attempts at
assassination, all correspondence of this kind was suspended.”
Not infrequently they are very young children who
embark upon the peculiarly Russian plans for the
improvement of the world. For, even if the old sometimes
possess a youthful enthusiasm, yet in Russia, as
elsewhere, it is the rule that years and experience bring
both men and women to regard the existing state of
things as stronger than it is, and the prospect of being
able to overthrow it, as much less promising than it
appeared to them in their youth. The observation has
also long since been made that, in the numerous political
trials of the last twenty years, hardly any one has been
convicted who was over thirty years old; even those
who were twenty-five years old were uncommon, the
ages of the majority varying from seventeen to
twenty-three.
In the spring of 1887, a young girl of sixteen was
arrested in St. Petersburg, whose parents were well
known everywhere in good society. Out of regard to
the high standing of her father, she was set at liberty;
but yet with such conditions that she now remains under
the surveillance of the police. A group of young
students had a weekly meeting in her mother’s house, — to
read Shakespeare aloud in Russian, as it was said. The
fact of these six or seven students meeting together so
regularly aroused suspicion; and the police sent a
warning, received an explanation, and answered: “It would
be better to abandon these readings.”
They apparently complied. Then the young students
were arrested. A manuscript translation of a little
socialistic tract, written by a man by the name of Thun,
was found in the rooms of one of them; and a card of
invitation was found, in the same handwriting, signed
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