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constantly kept informed through the telegraph bureau
of what the Novoye Vremya has said about this or that,
— a thing in and for itself as unimportant as the barking
of a dog or the soughing of the wind in the streets of St.
Petersburg, but which at a distance is regarded as an
affair of some weight. The feuilleton of this sheet is
edited by a certain Burénin, who is entirely worthy of
his master. The other coadjutors take the tone which
is given them by Suvórin and by him.
About one of them, B——of, a foreign author, who
had delivered a course of lectures in St. Petersburg,
related the following veritable anecdote: “B——of
wrote to me several times, while I was still at home,
sent me a book, and ended with placing himself and the
Novoye Vremya at my disposal on the occasion of my
visit to St. Petersburg. Immediately after my arrival
he called on me, invited me to his house, with so much
zeal that he assured me that a plate was ready for me at
his table every day. He gave a very favorable report of
my first lecture, after having requested the use of my
notes in the preparation of his article. Several times
he expressed the wish that I would take his wife with
me on a shopping expedition. His manner was so insinuating
as to affect me not quite agreeably. I held a little
back; and when, at last, after a renewed invitation, I
indicated that it would be impossible for me on that day
to make any purchases in company with his wife, he
inserted in his paper the same evening, without any
reference to the preceding articles, the boldest attack
upon me. ‘He had long kept silent, and watched,’ said
the article, ‘but at last so great a lack of talent and
conceit must be punished;’ nay, concealing the fact,
known to him, that I had received one of my lectures
back from the censor, so that I was obliged to substitute
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