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living her youth over again, because she believes that in
the present times she finds once more the vigorous
impulses from the sixties.
This inconstancy, which emanates from the very
receptive nature of the cultivated Russian, is less
surprising than elsewhere, and is accepted by the customs
of the country.
This class, moreover, in the higher stratum of society
also not infrequently manifests a certain cynicism in the
presence of brides by the “civil” rules to be found
elsewhere only among Bohemians.
Critic F. reads aloud in company an article about M.’s
poems. M., who enjoys a certain prestige as a lyric poet,
is a small, robust, thick-set man, about thirty years old,
with a dark Jewish-Mongolian countenance, a kindly,
attractive smile, and rather embarrassed demeanor. His
poems are ponderous, rich in sentences, and belong to a
kind of lyric usually characterized as deep. The critic
positively overwhelmed the absent poet with his praise.
In bombastic, incoherent prose, he extolled the wonderful
beauties, which were not to be found in reading the
poems through the first time. The comic aspect of the
situation was that Mrs. M., who was divorced the
previous year, is present, listens to the panegyrics upon her
ex-husband, and by the side of him she now prefers
expressed to the author of the article her objections to
his view of the subject.
One must go to the South German circles of actors and
authors to find anything like this. That which bears
the special Russian stamp on it is perhaps that no one in
the company seems to find anything out of the way in
it. It is a peculiarity of Russia that, when a marriage
tie is dissolved, it is generally the wife who desires to
enter upon a new union, and very often the husband, in
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